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TeX

TeX (/tɛx/), stylized as .mw-parser-output .tex-wordmark{font-family:"New Computer Modern","CMU Serif","cmr10","LMRoman10-Regular","Latin Modern Math","Symbola","Nimbus Roman No9 L","Times New Roman","Times",serif}.mw-parser-output .texhtml-upper{text-transform:uppercase}.mw-parser-output .texhtml-smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output…

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Developer
Donald Knuth
License
Permissive free software
Operating system
Cross-platform
Release
1978; 48 years ago (1978)
Repository
svn.tug.org:8369/texlive/
Stable release
3.141592653 / 5 February 2021; 5 years ago (2021-02-05)

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TeX

Nodes198
Edges197
Triples320
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010101
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TeX

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related to Editors · 41
TeX → Apple, AUCTeX, Automatic TeX, Emacs, For Apache OpenOffice, For KDE/Qt, For MediaWiki, Free, FreeBSD, GNU Emacs, IDE, It, Kile, Kile's, Knuth's, LaTeX, LaTeX WorkshopFor Vim, LibreOffice, Linux, LyX
related to Syntax · 31
TeX → Almost, American Mathematical Society, AMS, AMS-LaTeX, AMS-TeX, Another, Combinations, ConTeXt, DeVice Independent, DVI, Expansion, Hans Hagen, Here, In, It, Knuth's, LaTeX, Leslie Lamport, Most, Nowadays
related to history · 26
TeX → Computer Programming, Disappointed, Guy Steele, He, I/O, Incompatible Timesharing System, ITS, Knuth, Knuth's The Art, March, Massachusetts Institute, May, Monotype, On, PDP-10, SAIL, Stanford, Stanford's WAITS, Technology, TeX's
related to Community · 22
TeX → DANTE, Denmark, Die TeXnische Komödie, DK-TUG, France, Germany, GuIT, GUTenberg, Italy, Knuth, Netherlands, Notable, NTG, Other, TeX Users Group, The Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX, The PracTeX Journal, The TeX Users Group, TUG, TUGboat
related to Mathematical spacing · 18
TeX → Acta Mathematica, Addison-Wesley Publishing, AMS Euler, Computer Programming, Dutch, For, Hans Wolf, He, Indagationes Mathematicae, Knuth, Knuth's Computer Modern, On, Since, The, The Art, The OpenType, This, While TeX
related to Hyphenation and justification · 17
TeX → Adobe InDesign, Big, Donald Knuth, Formally, Further, GNU, However, If, In, Many, Michael Plass, NP-complete, Penalties, Such, TeX's, The, Unix
related to License · 17
TeX → Copying, Donald Knuth, For, Honeywell, However, If, Knuth, Omega, Since, TeX's, TeX-XeT, Text EXecutive, The, The American Mathematical Society, This, To, TRIP
related to Metafont · 16
TeX → AMS, Another, Bézier, Computer Modern, It, John Hobby, Knuth, LuaTeX, Metafont, PDF, PostScript Type, This, TrueType, Type, Users, XeTeX
related to Distributions and extensions · 15
TeX → Apple, Arbortext, GNU, James Clark's DSSSL Engine, Linux, Metafont, Microsoft Windows, MiKTeX, On Microsoft Windows, On UNIX-compatible, Prior, Several, TeX Live, Texinfo, UNIX-compatible
related to Uses · 13
TeX → Addison-Wesley, Cambridge University Press, Donald Knuth, Elsevier, In, Knuth, LaTeX, Many, Numerous, Oxford University Press, Springer, When, While

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system knuth typesetting used language using version mathematical new computer macro latex code algorithm including source called metafont software first

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TeXDeveloperDonald Knuth1.00infobox
TeXLicensePermissive free software1.00infobox
TeXOperating systemCross-platform1.00infobox
TeXRelease1978; 48 years ago (1978)1.00infobox
TeXRepositorysvn.tug.org:8369/texlive/1.00infobox
TeXStable release3.141592653 / 5 February 2021; 5 years ago (2021-02-05)1.00infobox
TeXTypeTypesetting1.00infobox
TeXWebsitetug.org1.00infobox
TeXWritten inWEB/Pascal1.00infobox
TeXis apopular means of typesetting complex mathematical formulae0.90text
TeXis aabbreviation of τέχνη0.90text
TeXis amacro- and token-based language0.90text
TeXis acommon file extension for plain TeX files0.90text

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