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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label whatTeX</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>What is TeX?</h3>
-<p/>TeX is a typesetting system written by
-<a href="http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/">Donald E. Knuth</a>, who
-says in the Preface to his book on TeX
-(see <a href="FAQ-books.html">books about TeX</a>) that it is
-
-&#8220;<em>intended for the creation of beautiful books &#8212;</em>
-<em>and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics</em>&#8221;.
-(If TeX were <em>only</em> good for mathematical books, much of its
-use nowadays would not happen: it&#8217;s actually a pretty good general
-typesetting system.)
-<p/>Knuth is Emeritus Professor of the Art of Computer Programming at
-Stanford University in California, USA. Knuth developed the
-first version of TeX in 1978 to deal with revisions to his series
-&#8220;the Art of Computer Programming&#8221;. The idea proved popular and
-Knuth produced a second version (in 1982) which is the basis of what
-we use today.
-<p/>Knuth developed a system of
-&#8216;<a href="FAQ-lit.html">literate programming</a>&#8217; to write TeX,
-and he provides the literate (WEB) source of TeX free of charge,
-together with tools for processing the <code>web</code> source into something
-that can be compiled and something that can be printed; there is (in
-principle) never any mystery about what TeX does. Furthermore, the
-WEB system provides mechanisms to port TeX to new operating
-systems and computers; and in order that one may have some confidence
-in the ports, Knuth supplied a <a href="FAQ-triptrap.html">test</a> by
-means of which one may judge the fidelity of a TeX system. TeX
-and its documents are therefore highly portable.
-<p/>For the interested programmer, the distribution of TeX has some
-fascination: it&#8217;s nothing like the way one would construct such a
-program nowadays, yet it has lasted better than most, and has been
-ported to many different computer architectures and operating
-systems &#8212; the sorts of attributes that much modern programming
-practice aims for. The processed &#8216;readable&#8217; source of TeX the
-program may be found in the
- <a href="FAQ-tds.html">TDS structured version</a> of the distribution.
-
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>Knuth&#8217;s source distribution</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/knuth/dist.zip">systems/knuth/dist</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/knuth/dist/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/knuth-dist.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>Knuth&#8217;s sources in TDS layout</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds/knuth.tds.zip">macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds/knuth.tds.zip</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatTeX">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatTeX</a>
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