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Re: LaTeX (was Re: Intergermansk)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Thursday, January 27, 2005, 20:00
PK = Pascal Kramm

PK> Over here, I always hear it pronounced /lateks/.

"here" = Germany, yes?  Outside of poor ignorant fools who pronounce
"LaTeX" as if it were the word "latex" (i.e. /'lej.tEks/ vel sim)  until
properly edjumacated, the usual Americanized pronunciations of
TeX and LaTeX are /tEk/ and /la'tEk/.  Some folks do pronounce the /x/, but
most substitute a /k/.

> 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.
Yes, though note that the 'a' is not subscripted like the 'e' when LaTeX is properly typeset.

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