[XeTeX] XeTeX pronounciation

Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh mmaa at cs.tcd.ie
Thu Apr 22 12:12:05 CEST 2004


On 22 Apr 2004, at 10:52, Jonathan Kew wrote:

>
> Good question!
>
> Personally, I pronounce the name as if it were "zee-TeX"; the "X" as 
> "z" by analogy with things like xenon, xylophone, etc., and the "e" 
> long rather than short just because that's what seems to sound right 
> to me. Of course, the "e" is really supposed to be a lowered backwards 
> "E", giving a nice symmetry to the name; I have no idea what that 
> would represent phonetically! Unfortunately, not many fonts yet 
> include Ǝ (U+018E, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED E).
>
> Does the name mean anything? Only that it's an OS X extension of 
> e-TeX, and I rather liked the bidirectional effect. :-)
>
> Jonathan

I think Bruno would be very happy with the "French" pronounciation of 
"zee-TeX"
:)))

Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh
Maynooth, County Kildare
Ireland


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Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh
Maynooth, County Kildare
Ireland
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