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==Pronouncing and writing "LaTeX"== [[File:LaTeX logo.svg|thumb|100px|The LaTeX wordmark, typeset with LaTeX's <code>\LaTeX</code> macro]] {{See also|TeX#Pronunciation and spelling}} The characters 'T', 'E', and 'X' in the name come from the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] [[capital letter]]s [[tau]], [[epsilon]], and [[chi (letter)|chi]], as the name of [[TeX]] derives from the {{langx|grc|τέχνη}} ('skill', 'art', 'technique'); for this reason, TeX's creator [[Donald Knuth]] promotes its pronunciation as {{IPAc-en|t|ɛ|x}} ({{respell|tekh}})<ref>Donald E. Knuth, ''The TeXbook'', Addison–Wesley, Boston, 1986, p. 1.</ref> (that is, with a [[voiceless velar fricative]] as in Modern Greek, similar to the ch in [[loch]]). Lamport remarks that "TeX is usually pronounced ''tech'', making ''lah''-tech, lah-''tech'', and ''lay''-tech the logical choices; but language is not always logical, so ''lay-tecks'' is also possible."<ref>Lamport (1994), p 5</ref> The name is printed in running text with a typographical [[logo]]: {{stylized LaTeX}}. In media where the logo cannot be precisely reproduced in running text, the word is typically given the unique capitalization LaTeX. Alternatively, the TeX, LaTeX,<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Edward |title=TeX and LaTeX logo POSHlets |url=http://edward.oconnor.cx/2007/08/tex-poshlet |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011230511/http://edward.oconnor.cx/2007/08/tex-poshlet |archive-date=2007-10-11 |access-date=2008-04-21}}</ref> and [[XeTeX]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taraborelli |first=Dario |title=CSS-driven TeX logos |url=http://nitens.org/taraborelli/texlogo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901040149/http://nitens.org/taraborelli/texlogo |archive-date=2017-09-01 |access-date=2008-04-21}}</ref> logos can also be rendered via pure [[CSS]] and [[XHTML]] for use in graphical [[web browser]]s — by following the specifications of the internal <code>\LaTeX</code> macro.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Walden |first=David |date=2005-07-15 |title=Travels in TeX Land: A Macro, Three Software Packages, and the Trouble with TeX |url=//www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-3/walden-travels/ |journal=The PracTeX Journal |issue=3 |access-date=2008-04-21}}</ref>
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