Talk:TeX

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)

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

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)

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)

"The widely-used MIME Type for TeX"

1,080,000 results for Google Search "text/x-tex"

versus

142,000 results for Google Search "application/x-tex"

--Keith111 (talk) 00:59, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

While I agree that text/x-tex makes much more sense given the usual MIME naming conventions, there is something going wrong with your Google search: by clicking on the two links above I get 173,000 hits for "text/x-tex", and 1,210,000 for "application/x-tex". — Emil J. 12:55, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Weird, I am still getting about the same numbers as before, in both Firefox and IE (which I rarely use): 1,070,000 for the first link and 140,000 for the second link. Refresh with Ctrl+F5 and modification of "Safe Search" settings did not produce a significant change. I am not logged in to Google, so my search results should not be personalized. --Keith111 (talk) 09:08, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

I also get the same results with a second computer (connected to the same router as the first). --Keith111 (talk) 09:15, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Interesting. I get 1,050,000 and 152,000 results respectively. Perhaps it's one of Google's geographical "features"? Shreevatsa (talk) 16:06, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Is it a "formula" ?

In the given TeX example, the output produced by the quantity between the dollar signs -- which is well known as the roots of a quadratic equation -- is called a "formula". The question is, whether this is a correct use of the word "formula" in the context of mathematics. In the Wikipedia article of the same name, I find the following statement:

Expressions are distinct from formulas in that they cannot contain an equals sign; whereas formulas are comparable to sentences, expressions are more like phrases.

And so the crux is, whether the usage is correct -- I would tend to vote for the word "expression" here. After all, TeX has very much to do with maths! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.165.253.203 (talk) 08:05, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Archiving

Does anyone object to me setting up automatic archiving for this page using MizaBot? Unless otherwise agreed, I would set it to archive threads that have been inactive for 60 days.--Oneiros (talk) 01:39, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

LULZ

The name TeX is intended by its developer to be pronounced /ˈtɛx/, with the final consonant of loch or Bach

Do you guys actually know how Bach is pronounced in German? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.85.214.129 (talk) 17:53, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

IPA: [ˈbaχ] or [ˈbax], depending on the dialect. Also, depending on the dialect, the initial consonant may be voiceless lenis [b̥], and I guess there may be other variations, but the final phone is generally pronounced as a voiceless uvular or velar fricative. How do you think it is pronounced?—Emil J. 10:48, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

That problem was also solved in the 2010 TeX replacement. Tijfo098 (talk) 16:57, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

What are you talking about? And how does this help improving the article?--Oneiros (talk) 11:33, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Watch the talk and you'll understand. Tijfo098 (talk) 17:35, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

No comparison to other word processors.

No part of the article is dedicated to comparing and contrasting it to other word processors. I understand that it uses a markup language and requires a separate editor program for WYSIWYG editing, but no direct comparisons as far as feature set were made, other than noting its excellent support for mathematical equations. 67.142.130.18 (talk) 02:39, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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)

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)