From 10e543c239585db77d0d14e6dd4557d1465a067c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Kremitzl Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:05:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fixing typos. --- content/what-is-latex.tex | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/what-is-latex.tex b/content/what-is-latex.tex index 303cc90..4d70c03 100644 --- a/content/what-is-latex.tex +++ b/content/what-is-latex.tex @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ In 1968, the first volume was published, at that time still printed using mechan This method was just disappearing then, and being replaced by new methods. However, the author did not like the results of those new methods, so, -at the end of the 70s he began to develop his own typesetting system \TeX +at the end of the 70s, he began to develop his own typesetting system \TeX (pronounced as \emph{tech}\todo{is that a valid transliteration in english?}), named after the ancient Greek word \texttau$\mathrm{\acute{\varepsilon}}$\textchi\textnu\texteta{} (technē) meaning \emph{art, craft}. Today, Donald Knuth (that is the former student’s name) is a retired professor of computer science and his compiler book has grown to become the multi-volume standard work \emph{The Art of Computer Programming}\,—\,three volumes of which are still to be written, among them the one on compilers. @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The current version dates from the mid~90s. Why are we telling you all of that? It explains some of the advantages that still distinguish \LaTeX{} today: It is a mature, stable, and reliable system -that does typesetting in a typographically sophisticated way and mostly auomatically. +that does typesetting in a typographically sophisticated way and mostly automatically. As the \TeX{} code is stored in plaintext files (c.\,f. \cref{sec:basic-functionality}), even more advantages arise: