TEX ファイルについて
TEX (LaTeX Document · 文書フォーマット)
LaTeX Document（.tex）は、専門的なワークフローやデータ交換・アーカイブで広く利用されているファイル形式です。KaijuConverterで高速に変換できます。
カテゴリ
Documents & Text
拡張子
.tex
MIMEタイプ
application/x-tex
対応ロール
TEX が誕生した
背景と歴史。
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.
豆知識＆
トリビア。
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.
長所と
制限事項。
長所
- 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.
制限・弱点
- 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.
一般的なファイルサイズ目安
Short paper source
10-100 KB
Thesis source with figures
500 KB - 10 MB
Book source (multi-file)
5-50 MB
技術仕様
- 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
他形式から変換
TEX
他形式へ変換
TEX
主な活用シーン
Academic papers, scientific publishing
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