Talk:TeX

message: Doesn't this sound a little biased?
"The disappointing galley proofs gave him the final motivation to solve the problem at hand once and for all by designing his own typesetting system."--86.184.71.5 (talk) 08:44, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to the ears of Knuthers, that ancient people who worship the prophet that defined Pi as the version number of TeX's final incarnation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.138.50 (talk) 23:09, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, yeah. - SummerPhDv2.0 19:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure what that sat for so long. The galley proofs were not disappointing any more than fudge ripple is the best flavor of ice cream. Those are opinions. "Once and for all" is simply bombast. He didn't like the proofs, so he designed his own system. Everything else is noise. - SummerPhDv2.0 19:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: The article (and also the List of TeX extensions article) would be substantially enhanced by the presence of a family tree diagram, a bit like this one for Unix. Such a family tree would include major derivatives/extensions/etc of TeX, such as LaTeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX, and help readers to visualise the ways in which those pieces of software relate to each other in terms of chronology and functionality.
, might you be interested in taking on that challenge? Please ping me if you reply, in case I am not watching this page. Thanks! Zazpot (talk) 21:33, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Also pinging the apparent authors/editors of the Unix family tree diagram (thank you for your work on it!), in case any of you are interested: Eraserhead1, Infinity0, and Sav vas. Zazpot (talk) 21:40, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

text: Sure, I'll be happy to illustrate it. I don't have the source info, though. Do you? cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:55, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, no, I don't, sorry. Collating that would be part of the challenge, I suppose. If that does not appeal to you then by all means decline it - no hard feelings whatsoever - and if I (or anyone else) eventually collates the information, then I (they) could ping you at that point to see if you are still interested in converting it into an illustration. Thanks! Zazpot (talk) 02:13, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately I am too busy these days 🙁. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 23:07, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

text: TeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX are programs. LaTeX (and plain TeX) are formats; they can run on any of these programs. So not sure how you'd draw a family tree. Shreevatsa (talk) 02:35, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:   (Replying to my own comment over a year later…)  Here's something I came up with: :File:TeX_engines,_formats,_and_commands.svg. The DOT source is included so feel free to make whatever changes necessary. I didn't bother to include other engines like LuaHBTeX and LuaMetaTeX (commented out in the source), nor more obscure engines for English-language readers (ptex, uptex, euptex, …), or TeX distributions like TeX Live and MiKTeX, nor mention the correspondences for the "commands" in detail as they're kind of obvious (xelatex = XeTeX engine + LaTeX format, etc). See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13593/the-differences-between-tex-engines and http://tug.org/levels.html and http://milde.users.sourceforge.net/TeXvariants-and-engines.xhtml Hope it helps, Shreevatsa (talk) 03:39, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would benefit from a family tree 

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message: Why is the current version number have the same digits as pi? I searched for pi in the article using Ctrl+F and didn't find anything.
I think it would be good to include an explanation of why the current version is very similiar to pi's decimal expansion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScientistBuilder (talk • contribs) 23:20, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pi as the current Version Number

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message: "mathematical formulas" would be enough in my opinion. and formulae is no more correct than formulas, according to most dictionaries, people, and regular humans. 176.54.4.163 (talk) 14:39, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "mathemathical formulae" sounds too pedantic