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GA Reassessment

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The Hyphenation and justification section has a clean-up tag.

Section names should not repeat the article name, as in "Use of TeX".

Pronouncing and writing "TeX" section ought to be integrated into the History section. Probably ought to be "pronunciation" anyway.

The Community section is too small to stand alone.

Many sections/subsections are entirely uncited. For instance: METAFONT, Novel aspects, and Macro Language.

There are several external links in the body of the article, for instance in the Packages and Editors sections. External links should only appear in an External links section.

Dates are not handled consistently, sometimes given in international format (30 March 1977) and sometimes in US format (May 13, 1977).

Italics are used inconsistently and incorrectly throughout the article. For instance: “all rights are reserved. Copying of this file is authorized only if (...) you make absolutely no changes to your copy” Quotations should not be in italics.

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 22:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IPA pronounciation

Done
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]

"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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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?