2026-11-04 20:40 UTC
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@vitaut@mastodon.social 2026-11-04 20:48
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com or a fast userspace yet utterly futile typesetting system called FuTeX
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@florian@typo.social 2026-11-04 20:48
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Knowing the community, it would have to be called μTeX.
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@helge@mastodon.social 2026-11-04 21:04
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Hm, I’m going to pronounce Mutex differently going forward: Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’.
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@megadec@aus.social 2026-11-05 03:14
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com people didn't like the idea of limiting the number of critical references
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@janneke@todon.nl 2026-11-05 05:20
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com possibly because MuTeX was the first Music Typesetting package for Tex? https://icking-music-archive.org/software/mutex/ #LilyPond #mutex #musictex #musixtex
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@Claire_Cassandre@eldritch.cafe 2026-11-05 06:05
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Over\hboxfull