The difficulty seems to be that the two X do not have the same origin.
The first stands, as I think, for something like eXtended (in the sends
of enhanced). About the second Donald Kuth tells us in "The TeXbook",
chapter 1 "The Name of the Game": "Insiders pronounce the $\chi$ of
\TeX\ as a Gre
On 1/23/06, maurizio codogno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/23/06, Don Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Without much thought, I've been pronouncing MusiXTeX as "myu-zicks-teck."
> > But, if TeX is pronounced "teck," then should MusiX be pronounced
> > "myu-zick"?
>
> I thought that the pron
On 1/23/06, Don Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Without much thought, I've been pronouncing MusiXTeX as "myu-zicks-teck."
> But, if TeX is pronounced "teck," then should MusiX be pronounced
> "myu-zick"?
I thought that the pronunciation of TeX rhymed with Bach, so I'd pronounce it
myu-zich-tec
On 1/23/06, Don Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Without much thought, I've been pronouncing MusiXTeX as "myu-zicks-teck."
> But, if TeX is pronounced "teck," then should MusiX be pronounced
> "myu-zick"? I realize that would sound exactly the same as MusicTeX, but
> remember that no one uses Mu
Without much thought, I've been pronouncing MusiXTeX as "myu-zicks-teck."
But, if TeX is pronounced "teck," then should MusiX be pronounced
"myu-zick"? I realize that would sound exactly the same as MusicTeX, but
remember that no one uses MusicTeX any more.
Did anyone ever actually hear how any of
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