jacka@hpiag0.IAG.HP.COM (Jack C. Armstrong) (11/30/89)
>Chapter one of "The LaTeX book" says that you can do it anyway >you want... except "L A TeX" (I guess he doesn't want to to look like >L. A. Law :) ) Sorry, nice guess, but the real reason is that Leslie Lamport lives in Superior California, and does not want to be associated in any way with what goes on south of the Techachapi Mountains. (Future scene of the 'Really Big One', for which our little quake was just an exercise.)
raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (11/30/89)
Please don't post pronunciations without references. I doubt
the original poster cared how YOU pronounced them; he wanted to
know what the "correct" pronunciations are.
Bearing that in mind, here are the "official" pronunciations, with
references.
GNU = guh-new [1]
nroff = en-roff [2]
troff = tee-roff [2]
TeX = Te@, where @ is a back-of-the-throat sound [3]
LaTeX = no official pronunciation [4]
[1] "To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the `G' in the word `GNU'
when it is the name of this project.", from the GNU Manifesto, R. Stallman.
[2] "The UNIX Programming Environment", page 289, by Kernighan and Pike.
[3] "The TeXbook", chapter 1 "The Name of the Game", by Don Knuth.
[4] "The LaTeX Book", chapter 1.3 "The Game of the Name", by Leslie Lamport.
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hacker by choice | beings. -- Barry Margolinneutron@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Jack Applin) (12/02/89)
Raymond Chen writes: > Please don't post pronunciations without references. I doubt > the original poster cared how YOU pronounced them; he wanted to > know what the "correct" pronunciations are. > > Bearing that in mind, here are the "official" pronunciations, with > references. > > GNU = guh-new [1] > [1] "To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the `G' in the word `GNU' > when it is the name of this project.", from the GNU Manifesto, R. Stallman. It's still ambiguous. How do we pronounce the `G'? Is it guh-new or gee-new? Remember, I don't care how YOU pronounce it; I want to know what the "correct" pronunciation is.