TeX

A digital typesetting system used primarily for the formatting of mathematical formulae.

Proper noun

  1. A digital typesetting system used primarily for the formatting of mathematical formulae.
    • TFFI-mode makes it possible for BibTeX to work on plain TeX documents as well. - 1986, Jacques Desarmenien, TEX for Scientific Documentation: Second European Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 19-21, 1986....

Origin

The letters of the name are meant to represent the capital Greek letters Τ (tau), Ε (epsilon), and Χ (chi), as TeX is an abbreviation of Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē), which is also the root word of technical.

Derived

BibTeX LaTeX