Re:WordTeX – A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool (2018) [video]
by drfuchs on Saturday July 30, 2022 @07:30PM
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Lamport says that either pronunciation is acceptable, and back when he gave talks about LaTeX, he would carefully switch back and forth between "ay" and "ah" each time he uttered "LaTeX". Or so he claims.
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Re:WordTeX – A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool (2018) [video]
by cionx on Saturday July 30, 2022 @09:12PM
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> Lamport says that either pronunciation is acceptable […].
This fits what Knuth said about the issue in 2006: “[…] lah-tek, lay-tek, the author never has decided how to pronounce it […].” [1]