The greek χ should be a “ch” sound like “Bach” or “Loch”. And if you copy that last character from the project page or anything it’s definitely an X, not a χ.
Indeed, “CH” like “Bach” or “loch” is an accepted pronunciation of LaTeX. We didn’t have unicode in the 1980s and LaTeX is a logotype so it doesn’t really get to evolve.
If by “latex” you mean \LaTeX, then that is impossible. Incidentally, it may interest you to know that the English alphabet does not map directly to phonemes or allophones. Sadly, you cannot know how a word is pronounced by looking at the letters that compose it. Isn’t that wild?
Because it’s not an X at the end, it’s a Greek chi. Same with the arXiv preprint distribution — it’s “archive,” not are-ex-iv.
The greek χ should be a “ch” sound like “Bach” or “Loch”. And if you copy that last character from the project page or anything it’s definitely an X, not a χ.
Indeed, “CH” like “Bach” or “loch” is an accepted pronunciation of LaTeX. We didn’t have unicode in the 1980s and LaTeX is a logotype so it doesn’t really get to evolve.
Meh, it’s pronounced Latex. I’ve chosen my hill to die on. Pretending it’s a “k” or “ch” sound is dumb.
You can mispronounce any word you like.
Yeah, but I prefer to pronounce latex properly, just like the rubber.
If by “latex” you mean
\LaTeX, then that is impossible. Incidentally, it may interest you to know that the English alphabet does not map directly to phonemes or allophones. Sadly, you cannot know how a word is pronounced by looking at the letters that compose it. Isn’t that wild?Nah, just LaTeX, the typesetting system. The one named entirely in characters from the English alphabet, named after the polymer emulsion.
Petition to change the name to RX4
99 what you did there…
(I know, IC isn’t valid Roman numeral representation of 99, but it was the only joke I could think of.)