Nah. I've said it like the English word in my head for decades. I'll keep doing it. Argle bargle.

It's like those 'kevinist' names where it sounds like 'taylor' but is spelled like 'wishbone' or something. Just. No.

(Hush, Ceilidh, I almost have a sound argument)

If you pronounce project like you pronounce latex, you could call it "latex projext".

Lay-tech or Lah-tech is how I've been told it's pronounced, don't ask which one is correct, I don't know

The tex there has the Greek letter chi instead of Latin x at the end and is supposed to be reminiscent of a Greek root from which we derived the word technique: techne or τέχνη. The tex there is just pronounced tech usually. The original intention I believe was for it to sound like the ch in loch or bach but that sound isn't seen in modern English(generally even in the examples I gave). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_uvular_fricative

For all the star Trek nerds: that's close to what the Klingon word gagh ends with. Gagh has a voiced uvular fricative, so just do the same without voice and just air and you'll get chi.

La-tech

My PhD supervisor insisted it was "Law-tex"

The 'X' at the end of \LaTeX is actually a uppercase chi, so it pronounced with a 'k' sound.

Yoosey mothers use yiff!

I always like to point out that outside of the US, Jiff means drain cleaner, although maybe that's just a commentary on the quality of the peanut butter. Although frankly it doesn't make the acronym any less ridiculous.

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It's "up tack": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_tack

I always pronounced it bottom because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_element_and_least_element#Top_and_bottom or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_type which is how the Haskell report (where I got comfortable with the symbol) uses it.

It's blazing fast, too, when compared with LaTeX. And another WIP feature I'm particularly excited about: HTML export.

Thanks for the long list! I'm not "opposed" to typst, whatever that would mean, just a bit cautious picking up new workflows/investing into skills that may become irrelevant 2 years later. But it seems that for my use case the main advantage are more useful error messages (which does suck sometimes using latex). I also see a potential new use case, if I need to use/create a new template, which can take some time with latex. The other points are not really bothering me. I write my texts in vim and build the pdf later, once the text is finished. Latex is fast enough for that.