LaTeX (was Re: Intergermansk)

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From: "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...>
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:30 pm
Subject: Re: Intergermansk

> >It may be noted, tho, that my lect - unlike BP's, I know -
> doesn't like
> syllable
> >-final [x]. I actually had an interesting example of this today;
> a guy at the
> >maths institute was introducing me and some other students to the
> wonders of
> >LaTeX, and told us that the name, by the decree of Knuth, is to
> be pronounced
> >as [la'tEx] - afterwards, he and everyone else said [lA'tES],
> except me, who
> >for no specific reason maintained the final velar, despite the
> foreign flair it
> >gives.
>
> Over here, I always hear it pronounced /lateks/.
TeX is correctly written {T}{subscript-E}{X} (lower case {e} is the preferred
substitution in ASCII), and pronounced /tex/. AFAICT, LaTeX should be written
and pronounced accordingly.

> (Not that I would
> evertouch it with pincers, mind you, but I don't need it as I'm
> avoidinganything maths-related like the plague, as far as possible).
LaTeX is useful for so much more beyond mathematical texts, though. Got a conlangy
idea that needs a weird diacritic? Want to publish it in an unambiguous way?
Write in LaTeX, and publish in PDF. Maybe you've got something in a complex
writing system? Add Metafont to the mix, and you're good to go.




Paul

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