https://blogs.timerring.com/tags/tex/Recent content in TeX on timerringHugoenWed, 02 Aug 2023 16:50:13 +0800https://blogs.timerring.com/posts/latex-basic-concepts/Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:50:13 +0800https://blogs.timerring.com/posts/latex-basic-concepts/<h2 id="tex"> TEX <a class="anchor" href="#tex">#</a> </h2> <p>TEX is software developed by Donald E. Knuth for typesetting text and mathematical formulas. In 1977, while writing The Art of Computer Programming, Knuth realized that the steadily declining typesetting quality would affect the publication of his work. To reverse this situation, he began developing TEX, tapping into the potential of digital printing equipment that had just begun to be used in the publishing industry at the time. In 1982, Knuth released the TEX typesetting engine, and later improved it in 1989 to better support 8-bit characters and multilingual typesetting. TEX is renowned for its outstanding stability, cross-platform capabilities, and almost bug-free nature. Its version number continuously approaches π, and is currently 3.141592653.</p>