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Nov 7, 2015 · 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 ...
It seems Knuth did because he is right on how LaTeX is pronounced, given that the tex-part is pronounced as the first syllable τέχ from the Greek word τέχνη. This is just wrong. It is indeed (as the top comment noted) pronounced as the hard 'ch'. You can read that in the original TeXbook by Knuth:
It definitely is not pronounced “ks” (the Greek letter with that sound doesn’t look remotely like the Latin alphabet “X”). This curious usage derives from Knuth’s explanation in the TeXbook that the name comes from the Greek word for “art” or “craft” (“ techni ”), which is the root of the English word “technology ...
Nov 4, 2018 · English words like ‘technology’ stem from a Greek root beginning with the letters τ χ; and this same Greek word means art as well as technology. Hence the name TEX, which is an uppercase form of τ χ. Insiders pronounce the χ of TEX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TEX rhymes with the word blecchhh.
LaTeX is a TeX macro package, originally written by Leslie Lamport, that provides a document processing system. LaTeX allows markup to describe the structure of a document, so that the user need not think about presentation. By using document classes and add-on packages, the same document can be produced in a variety of different layouts.
Depends. If you go by how the word looks, it's "latex"; if you want to appear like you know what you're doing, but actually you're not, you pronounce it "la-tek" or "lay-tek" like in"technical"; this last prononciation is not actually the absolutely right one, because the "TeX" component is not pronounced "tech" but more like what the letters "ch/c'h" would sound in Scottish or German.
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Oct 26, 2017 · There should be a third option Lah-techh with chh to sound like in the word "who" without the "o". It is actually the "correct" way because Tex is written Τεχ from the greek words like Τεχνη (art) and Τεχνολογία (technology), according to the creator. So it should read as a Greek word.
