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> of course he pronounces the X in LaTeX Okay.. how is LaTeX pronounced?
by Twirrim 3y ago
> of course he pronounces the X in LaTeX
Okay.. how is LaTeX pronounced?
- noman-land 3y agoThe X is pronounced like a K.
- ahazred8ta 3y agoLaTeX - like the 'ch' in German 'ach' - the X is meant to be a Greek letter χ (chi). TeX is supposed to have a soft Kh as opposed to a hard K.
- SushiHippie 3y agoCopied from: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-correct-pronunciation-of-tex-and-latex https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-co... Let the creators of TeX and LaTeX answer: Donald Knuth wrote in the first chapter of his TeXbook: English words like ‘technology’ stem from a Greek root beginning with the letters τεχ...; and this same Greek word means art as well as technology. Hence the name TeX, which is an uppercase form of τεχ. 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’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist. Leslie Lamport wrote in the first chapter of his book LaTeX: A document Preparation System: One of the hardest things about LaTeX is deciding how to pronounce it.This is also one of the few things I'm not going to tell you about LaTeX, since pronunciation is best determined by usage, not fiat. TeX is usually pronounced teck, making lah-teck, and lay-teck the logical choices; but language is not always logical, so lay-tecks is also possible.
- rasz 3y agoPronounce it like a Klingon.