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IPA pronounciation

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The first line says: TeX (pronounced /ˈtɛx/, as in Greek, often /ˈtɛk/ in English
Why should there be two pronounciations, when they are writen alike in IPA: /ˈtɛx/? -DePiep (talk) 07:15, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see ... x or k. Almost just in time ;-) -DePiep (talk) 07:16, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What does "Greek" or "English" pronunciation mean? If anything, it would make people unfamiliar with IPA think it rhymes with "Greek". And reading X (ks) as Χ (kh) is "Greek", not the other way round. --MarkSteward (talk) 12:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is a link to make clear that Greek refers to the Greek language. I don't quite understand what your second problem is, (late Koine, Byzantine, and Modern) Greek chi is pronounced as IPA [x], just like the note says. — Emil J. 13:12, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm having a hard time understanding the phrase "/ˈtɛx/ tekh as in Greek" as well. On careful parsing I see it's likely the author does not mean `such a sound as one finds in the word "Greek"' because there are no quotes around the word "Greek" and none of "TeX" actually sounds like the word "Greek". However, it is still unclear what the sentence is saying about the relationship between /ˈtɛx/ tekh and Greek. I think maybe it's trying to say something like "the word is pronounced with the end consonant sounding like /x/ (kh), a sound such as may be found in Modern Greek" or "the word is pronounced as you might expect a word spelled this way to be pronounced if it were a Greek word (which it isn't actually); the word is pronounced as it would be if in Greek". I think the former is more likely. Could we be clearer about what it is that is pronounced as in Modern Greek? Or maybe just leave off "as in Greek" because it probably won't be illuminating to English speakers? —Raymond Keller (talk) 10:26, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Link

The link to "Plain TeX Quick Reference (PDF)" is broken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.198.129.70 (talk) 21:53, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

POV

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Um, yeah. - SummerPhD^v2.0 19:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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. - SummerPhD^v2.0 19:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Needs a Tex disambiguation link as there are other Tex's out there

Look at the Text Executive Programming Language Wikipedia article, it has a Tex disambiguation reference page pointer.

I think this article needs one too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_%28disambiguation%29

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Executive_Programming_Language — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.6.208.10 (talk) 15:29, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Would benefit from a family tree

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.

@Cmglee:, 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Unfortunately I am too busy these days 🙁. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 23:07, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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 ::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 - [[WP:NOTCOMPULSORY|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! [[User:Zazpot|Zazpot]] ([[User talk:Zazpot|talk]]) 02:13, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
 :::Unfortunately I am too busy these days 🙁. -- [[User:Eraserhead1|Eraserhead1]] &lt;[[User_talk:Eraserhead1|talk]]&gt; 23:07, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
+: 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. [[User:Shreevatsa|Shreevatsa]] ([[User talk:Shreevatsa|talk]]) 02:35, 7 February 2019 (UTC)