I 🖤 LaTeX

As a long-time LaTeX user, I can confirm that there's quite a bit of overlap between that and masochism.

I was going to say I like the outcome of LaTeX, far more than the experience of actually setting the outcome up.

Curious, is anyone pronouncing them the same or does this only work in text?

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.
- I guess I’m one of them. I’ve never used LaTeX, but I don’t know how else I’d pronounce that.
- It's pronounced yiff, right?
- the people who pronounce GIF like the peanut butter.
  I call it 'Jif' 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
I know how LaTeX is pronounced but I always read it the same as latex.
- latex-project.org says "lah-tech" or "lay-tech"
The X is pronounced “tweet” apparently.
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.
- I've never encountered that kind of LaTeX in media.
I've always pronounced it "Lah-tekh"
They're pronounced so differently my wife didn't get it until I informed her that LaTeX is how "latec" is spelled
Wait is the TeX not short for “text”? I’ve always pronounced them the same.
- The "X" is the greek letter, pronounced like the ch in Bach. Knuth explains this in the TeXbook, think TeXnician, not TeXpert.
I’ve literally never heard anybody pronounce them differently, your comment confused me at first but TIL.

Love Typst, and I hope it takes off.
I've seen this floating around a few times but am too tired to invest energy into this specific hype train. What exactly makes it stand apart from latex or markdown (then pandoced into latex)? Genuine question. I think once you've found your way around Latex, the major pain IMHO is whenever you apply it for a new use case and need to find out which packages to load that are not outdated. Ah, and alt text for images. But AFAIR this is already mostly solved, just not shipped widely yet.
Pros of Latex I think are important to keep in mind:
it works since ever and for probably the rest of all our careers
there is an established community
the codebase doesn't change on a whim
- 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
- 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.
Wow. This looks fantastic. I remember using LaTeX and having a love/hate relationship.

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.

Venn of this is just two concentric circles.

They're the same person

The one is nearly sexual power play condemned by a huge portion of society, the other is wearing uncomfortable clothes

I love gimp

I love windows.

Oh, wait... nooo...

Anyone else have any good latex quotes? Here’s mine:

“I don’t mean to brag, but I’m deathly allergic to latex.”

"And you want to be my latex salesman."

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

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"
- Tf even is that symbol? Looks like Box-drawing characters to me

That nerd would surely pronounce his kink /ˈleɪtɛk/. Also, nobody loves \LaTeX. Unrealistic. 3/10.

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
- 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
- Even now i'm not in university anymore I use LaTeX for my CV and any formal letter I have to send.
Also, nobody loves \LaTeX.
Lies, LaTeX is great.
- Yes, absolutely.
  \ But does anyone love it?
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.
- 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.
- From another comment:
  The 'X' at the end of \LaTeX is actually a uppercase chi, so it pronounced with a 'k' sound.
- 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.

Weird how this meme format is always 'man nerd' and 'woman normal'.

Especially when you read left to right so the "punchline" should be on the right I think.
It's Zoey Deschanel, idk how normal that woman is.

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)/¯