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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatTeX.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatTeX.html index a992f2aea34..105c1eb31db 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatTeX.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatTeX.html @@ -7,21 +7,18 @@ says in the Preface to his book on TeX (see <a href="FAQ-books.html">books about TeX</a>) that it is -"<em>intended for the creation of beautiful books - and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics</em>". +“<em>intended for the creation of beautiful books — and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics</em>”. <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 -"the Art of Computer Programming". The idea proved popular and +“the Art of Computer Programming”. 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 - -' -<a href="FAQ-lit.html">literate programming</a>' -to write TeX, +<p>Knuth developed a system of +‘<a href="FAQ-lit.html">literate programming</a>’ 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's never +that can be compiled and something that can be printed; there’s 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, @@ -35,7 +32,7 @@ macros for use with TeX called Plain TeX; Plain TeX is effectively the minimum set of macros one can usefully employ with TeX, together with some demonstration versions of higher-level commands (the latter are better regarded as models than used as-is). -When people say they're "programming in TeX", they usually mean -they're programming in Plain TeX. +When people say they’re “programming in TeX”, they usually mean +they’re programming in Plain TeX. <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> </body> |