[XeTeX] XeTeX pronounciation

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:12 22/04/2004, Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh wrote:

>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 ÆŽ (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"
>:)))

of gee-tex

Hans