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514: 919: 358: 237: 928:. 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 422: 391: 490: 567: 546: 207: 349: 1140: 1004: 966: 641: 729:
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. -
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I've updated to the most recent and broad and most compatible version TeX Live 2024, maybe the idea was to say that there are an "undefined" number of versions for TeX. That could be the case because there are. Although, it is important to have a version described there.
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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.
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Most of the time, even TeX experts will typeset a (La)TeX file before attempting to read it. Are you “put off” by all this? — remember that TeX is good at producing PDF: why not ask the person who sent the TeX file to send a PDF
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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.
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they say that "You can, of course, “just read it”, since it’s a plain text file; the problem is that the markup tags in the document may prove distracting.
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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 -
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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:
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article, software based in TeX, doesn't have this info box. It would be more suitable because it is just a typesetting software.
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until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.
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article) would be substantially enhanced by the presence of a family tree diagram, a bit like
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Type format: sure, it is a text file, but can you read it? It's more like html, markup. The
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Not to the ears of Knuthers, that ancient people who worship the prophet that defined
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Sure, I'll be happy to illustrate it. I don't have the source info, though. Do you?
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https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13593/the-differences-between-tex-engines
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me if you reply, in case I am not watching this page. Thanks!
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File extension I do not think it is critical, even on the
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