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[[Category:Encyclopedia]]'''<span class="texhtml" style="font-family: 'CMU Serif', cmr10, LMRoman10-Regular, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">T<span style="text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: -0.5ex; margin-left: -0.1667em; margin-right: -0.125em;">e</span>X</span>{{TeX}}''' (the X stands for the greek Χ letter and so pronounced as ''ch'' in te''ch''nics, and written with a lowercase 'e' in imitation of the logo) is a [[wp:typesetting|typesetting]] language and system designed and mostly written by [[wp:Donald Knuth|Donald E. Knuth]].
See wikipedia [[wp:TeX|{{TeX}}]] for more.
See wikipedia [[wp:TeX|<span class="texhtml" style="font-family: 'CMU Serif', cmr10, LMRoman10-Regular, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">T<span style="text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: -0.5ex; margin-left: -0.1667em; margin-right: -0.125em;">e</span>X</span>]] for more.
Normally a ''bare'' {{TeX}} is hardly usable to typeset, so ''macro packages'' are often used. The basic macro package given as default is [[PlainTeX|{{PlainTeX}}]]; a very common and widely used macro package is [[LaTeX|{{LaTeX}}]], but there are many.
Normally a ''bare'' <span class="texhtml" style="font-family: 'CMU Serif', cmr10, LMRoman10-Regular, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">T<span style="text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: -0.5ex; margin-left: -0.1667em; margin-right: -0.125em;">e</span>X</span> is hardly usable to typeset, so ''macro packages'' are often used. The basic macro package given as default is [[plainTeX|Plain <span class="texhtml" style="font-family: 'CMU Serif', cmr10, LMRoman10-Regular, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">T<span style="text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: -0.5ex; margin-left: -0.1667em; margin-right: -0.125em;">e</span>X</span>]]; a very common and widely used macro package is [[LaTeX|<span class="texhtml" style="font-family: 'CMU Serif', cmr10, LMRoman10-Regular, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">L<span style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 70%; margin-left: -0.36em; vertical-align: 0.3em; line-height: 0; margin-right: -0.15em;">a</span>T<span style="text-transform: uppercase; margin-left: -0.1667em; vertical-align: -0.5ex; line-height: 0; margin-right: -0.125em;">e</span>X</span>]], but there are many.
* [http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/findlanguages2.prx?language=PlainTeX&which=byname <span class="texhtml" style="font-family: 'CMU Serif', cmr10, LMRoman10-Regular, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">T<span style="text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: -0.5ex; margin-left: -0.1667em; margin-right: -0.125em;">e</span>X</span>{{TeX}} on HOPL]
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