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Re: LaTeX (was Re: Intergermansk)

From:Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Friday, January 28, 2005, 3:34
On 28 Jan 2005, at 7.00 am, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> 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/.
You really stress the second syllable? (I'm not sure if I can do that without the first vowel reducing to /@/, then it sounds frenchish: leteque.*) I've always said /"la:tek/. * This may not reflect how French would say that word, only how I perceive it, hence the -ish.
>> 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.
No, it's superscripted instead, sitting in the L's space (one letter---must be the shortest library there is!**). ** Terry Pratchett/Discworld reference. -- Tristan.

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