Informazioni sui file TEX

TEX (LaTeX Document · Formato documento)

Rilasciato 1978 Di Donald Knuth

LaTeX Document (.tex) è un formato di file standard supportato da KaijuConverter per l’archiviazione, la condivisione e la conversione multipiattaforma.

Famiglia

Documents & Text

Estensione

.tex

Tipo MIME

application/x-tex

Utilizzabile come

Input

La storia

COME TEX
È NATO.

1977

1982

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1990

TeX is Donald Knuth’s typesetting language, which he started writing in 1977 because the galley proofs of his magnum opus "The Art of Computer Programming" looked terrible after typesetting technology regressed in the 1970s from hot metal to early phototypesetting. Knuth spent roughly 10 years creating a typesetting engine good enough to render his own books. TeX 1.0 shipped in 1982 and reached version 3.141592 in 1990; subsequent updates add one more digit of π each time.

LaTeX, by Leslie Lamport (1984), is a macro package on top of TeX that adds document structure (`\section`, `\chapter`, `\bibliography`) and made the system accessible to academics. For 40+ years TeX/LaTeX has been the de-facto standard for mathematical, physics, and computer-science papers — every academic journal in those fields accepts .tex source. Modern variants (XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX) add Unicode and OpenType font support.

CURIOSITÀ E
ANEDDOTI.

Donald Knuth offers $2.56 (1 hexadecimal dollar) to anyone who finds a bug in TeX — and has personally paid out many such checks, most of which are framed instead of cashed.

TeX's current version number approaches π: each release adds one more digit. Version 3.141592653 is the target as of 2020.

LaTeX renders mathematical equations so beautifully that it remains the academic standard decades after better general-purpose tools arrived.

The filename suffix is .tex because TeX was written in the 1970s when 3-character extensions were common.

arXiv.org accepts only LaTeX source for physics, math, and CS preprints — the format's influence on scientific publishing is immense.

PUNTI DI FORZA E
LIMITAZIONI.

Punti di forza

Unmatched mathematical typesetting — LaTeX equations look publication-quality.
Separates content from formatting — update the style template, the document reflows.
Reliable output — same .tex produces the same PDF anywhere.
Mature ecosystem with thousands of packages (beamer, tikz, biblatex, hyperref).
Free and open-source under Knuth's license.

Limitazioni

Steep learning curve.
Error messages are notoriously cryptic.
Complex figures and tables require manual tweaking.
Modern editors (Word, Google Docs) do not open .tex.
Compilation can be slow for long documents.

Dimensioni e pesi tipici

Short paper source

10-100 KB

Thesis source with figures

500 KB - 10 MB

Book source (multi-file)

5-50 MB

Specifiche tecniche

MIME type: application/x-tex
Extensions: .tex, .ltx, .cls, .sty
Engines: pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt
Macro layer: LaTeX, Plain TeX, ConTeXt
Output: DVI, PostScript, PDF

CONVERTI DA
TEX

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CONVERTI IN
TEX

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Casi d'uso comuni

Academic papers, scientific publishing