Curious, is anyone pronouncing them the same or does this only work in text?
I 🖤 LaTeX
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve not heard anyone pronounce them the same, but I don’t doubt they’re out there. Probably a decent overlap with the people who pronounce GIF like the peanut butter.
corvi@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I guess I’m one of them. I’ve never used LaTeX, but I don’t know how else I’d pronounce that.
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 month ago
the people who pronounce GIF like the peanut butter.
I call it ‘Jiff’ and will defend it to the death, for no other reason than I think it’s hilarious to have a very strong opinion on something so irrelevant. People get soo mad about it :D
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I know how LaTeX is pronounced but I always read it the same as latex.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
latex-project.org says “lah-tech” or “lay-tech”
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The X is pronounced “tweet” apparently.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve only heard LaTeX pronounced like latex in media where someone uses it to show what a geek some character is. eg, I’ve been typsetting my homework assignments in latex since I was 9.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve never encountered that kind of LaTeX in media.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve always pronounced it “Lah-tekh”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re pronounced so differently my wife didn’t get it until I informed her that LaTeX is how “latec” is spelled
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve literally never heard anybody pronounce them differently, your comment confused me at first but TIL.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wait is the TeX not short for “text”? I’ve always pronounced them the same.
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The “X” is the greek letter, pronounced like the ch in Bach. Knuth explains this in the TeXbook, think TeXnician, not TeXpert.
starman@programming.dev 1 month ago
You guys should try typst.app
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Love Typst, and I hope it takes off.
udon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve seen this floating around a few times but are too tired to invest energy into this specific hype train. What exactly makes it stand apart from latex or markdown (then pandoced into latex)?
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Pros of typst:
- It makes you happy while using it because it just works
- Packages are available in typst universe and you don’t need to install 2000 Debian packages to be able to use it reasonably because most things are just available
- There are some super cool packages like that diagrams one, or that inline comments one.
- If you have an error, it tells you what the fucking problem is instead of printing 2000 lines of crap and saying overfull hbox 200 times
- There are many templates for all kinds of purposes
- Math mode is a bit different from latex but mich easier to remember since you often just write things out. Fractions are just done with /, more complicated things are just writing the name out. It’s actually rather intuitive.
- The documentation is much better than latex, especially for the base language.
- It’s fast as fuck. My bachelor Thesis builds in milliseconds. No need to build 3 times over with each being 5 seconds.
- Like overleaf? typst.app has that too. Local works just as well though. Language server for neovim or other editors exist too.
- It’s actually programmable with variables and loops and conditionals and functions and all that if you need it.
Probably some more, just wrote a little list after waking up out of my head
starman@programming.dev 1 month ago
I believe I can’t help you with this, because my motivations behind using it are different. I’ve only used latex for fun before, and now I use typst instead of regular word processor, whenever I need to create a PDF.
Sphks@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Wow. This looks fantastic. I remember using LaTeX and having a love/hate relationship.
bss03@infosec.pub 1 month ago
LaTeX (/ˈlɑːtɛk/ ⓘ LAH-tek or /ˈleɪtɛk/ LAY-tek,[2] often stylized as LaTeX) is a software system for typesetting documents
Note the pronunciation is distinct from /ˈleɪˌtɛks/ the material.
But, sure everyone has to make that joke at least once.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Venn of this is just two concentric circles.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re the same person
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Can confirm
33550336@lemmy.world 1 month ago
same me
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
The one is nearly sexual power play condemned by a huge portion of society, the other is wearing uncomfortable clothes
zexyqag@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love gimp
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Gyroplast@pawb.social 1 month ago
That nerd would surely pronounce his kink
/ˈleɪtɛk/. Also, nobody loves \LaTeX. Unrealistic. 3/10.SW42@lemmy.world 1 month 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
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 month 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
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even now i’m not in University anymore I use LaTeX for my CV and any formal letter I have to send.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, nobody loves \LaTeX.
Lies, LaTeX is great.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yes, absolutely.
But does anyone love it?
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
From another comment:
The ‘X’ at the end of \LaTeX is actually a uppercase chi, so it pronounced with a ‘k’ sound.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 month 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.
Gyroplast@pawb.social 1 month 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.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Funnily, just the other day I was reverse looking up what a symbol was in LaTeX, i.e. I had the \symbol text but not the symbol itself. So I look up whatever that symbol was in text, along with the word ‘latex.’ I think the search was ‘cup latex.’ Colour me surprised when I go to ‘images’, try and see if an image of it shows up. It was not LaTeX. Not with that capitalisation
shmanio@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I had a similar experience looking up the code for ⊥, I didn’t realize the world has given a very specific meaning to the words “latex bottom”
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Tf even is that symbol? Looks like Box-drawing characters to me
propter_hog@hexbear.net 1 month ago
*/ˈlɑːtɛk/ or /ˈleɪtɛk/, but not /ˈleɪtɛks/
plinky@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Feel like it’s definite cop out after someone made fun of them in the 80s
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Anyone else have any good latex quotes? Here’s mine:
“I don’t mean to brag, but I’m deathly allergic to latex.”
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 1 month ago
“And you want to be my latex salesman.”
Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Weird how this meme format is always ‘man nerd’ and ‘woman normal’.
kerf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Especially when you read left to right so the “punchline” should be on the right I think.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s Zoey Deschanel, idk how normal that woman is.
hasecilu@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Once at school I wanted to know how to use Japanese characters so I search for “japanese in latex” on the images section. Not what I was looking for but not disappointed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
halvar@lemy.lol 1 month ago
fake, no one likes LaTeX
NuraShiny@hexbear.net 1 month ago
I am on the right side of this picture.
figjam@midwest.social 1 month ago
I love this meme because there are people who are very devoted to one or the other. And then there is the venn diagram overlap…
Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 month ago
The local BDSM clubs male participants are like 80 % doing something IT related. The overlap might be bigger than you expect.
Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 1 month ago
Please warn me of any sites with Latex so i can add them to my blocked list so i can only find LaTeX related stuff.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Well, lets start you off with this beauty (NSFW)
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I 🖤 gals like her.
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Username checks out
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Latex sheen, fursuit blush
Eq0@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Obviously, it’s the man doing science and the woman interested in clothes
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
TTIWWOP.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Remember a certain part in Postal 2
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
[deleted]ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
We should all use Lotus Notes like god intended.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
As a long-time LaTeX user, I can confirm that there’s quite a bit of overlap between that and masochism.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I was going to say I like the outcome of LaTeX, far more than the experience of actually setting the outcome up.