Because of this, it receives the main stress of the word. This morpheme acts as a modifier (like an adjective) to the 'latex' or 'tex' word. Since 'tex' and 'latex' are independent words, we interpret 'xe' as a morpheme (i.e., a piece with independent meaning that meaning being something like "UTF-8 aware flavour"). But the 'Xe' in 'XeLaTeX' cannot have the 'zeh' pronunciation. Some of this variation may be dialectal, but some speakers may in fact have both options freely. 'z' is the natural way to pronounce other words that begin with 'X' (e.g., xenon, xylophone, Xanadu, xenophobia, Xerox, xylem, to name some that most of us may know.) Why 'zee' and not 'zeh'?Įnglish speakers actually vary in their pronunciation of words beginning with 'xe', using either 'zee' or 'zeh' (IPA or ). So for English speakers, I think that 'zee-TeX' (IPA: or ) is indeed the preferred form. Pronunciation depends on people's native language - which is fine with The mailing list recently, and it was clear that the “natural” JK: I don't have a strong opinion on the “correct” pronunciation, Starters, how should I pronounce XeTeX - like Zee TeX? And why did you Site, but perhaps you can also tell us something about it here. From a TUG interview with Jonathan Kew, the original author of XeTeX:ĭW: Of course, other readers and I could look at your XeTeX web
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