Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX

Gyroplast@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• SW42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I do love LaTeX. Wrote every thesis and paper with it. Using bibtex was a lifesaver as I didn’t have to care for citations and references. Not caring about numbering, footnotes or annotations and having them automatically is amazing. Also structuring the thesis or paper into multiple separate files that work with version control has web a game changer for me

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I too loved latex before I got into typst. Then I realized I just loved latex because it was the best thing I had at the time

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    • SW42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you for sharing! It really looks great! The deal breaker for me is the lack of a self hosted IDE option. Right now I use overleaf in a docker container and as far as I understood their web editor is proprietary. I’ll check it out in the future for sure!

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      • dreugeworst@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I believe they have an lsp you can run which should work with lots of editors. not an ide I know, but pretty good still

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Even now i’m not in University anymore I use LaTeX for my CV and any formal letter I have to send.

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also, nobody loves \LaTeX.

  Lies, LaTeX is great.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, absolutely.
    But does anyone love it?

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  English is stupid, but how does “latex” get a “k” ending? I have heard people arguing for years that it’s supposed to be pronounced that way, but never any justification for why.

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  • thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    From another comment:

    The ‘X’ at the end of \LaTeX is actually a uppercase chi, so it pronounced with a ‘k’ sound.

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s also wrong, it’s supposed to be a ch-sound as in Bach.

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      • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Depending on the time. In ancient Greek it was /k^h^/ (aspirated k, basically the normal k in English) which turned to /x/ as you said but neither is wRoNG, especially when your native language doesn’t have one if the sounds

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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      • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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.

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Petition to change the name to RX4

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      • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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.)

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  • Gyroplast@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Among the lovely revival of arguing the One True Pronunciation, I personally see lay-tech as a portmanteau of “layout technology”. Meaning in German discourse, it’s [tɛç], and in English [tɛk]. Simple to remember, easy to derive, and matching the Gospel.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Except that it’s spelled “Latex” with all letters from the English alphabet and there is already an existing word with that spelling, therefore it is pronounced the same way as that word. You don’t pronounce “Laser” as “Lah Seer” even though the “A” comes from “Amplification” and the “E” from “Emission”. Once it became a word, it was pronounced using standard English pronunciation rules.

      Latex, like the rubber stuff.

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      • Gyroplast@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Read the instructions”, he was told, so he read them. And then he did lead Sean to the lead pipe.

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