On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Guenter Milde <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-04-20, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Julien Rioux > Unless you bother to >> watch the video you won't get it. >>> (jump to 13:30 for the pronunciation) > > Or read the transkript at http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-2/tb98knut.pdf: > > How does one properly pronounce this name? Listen carefully: “ˇı-t´ex” > [“ ˇ ee-t´ecks”]. In the first place, you’ll notice that it should be > said musically, with tones as in Mandarin. (The first vowel is spoken > with a dipping tone, “ˇı”, where the pitch falls and then rises. The > second vowel has a strictly rising tone, “´e”, almost as if you’re > asking a question.) In the second place, you’ll notice that I’ve also > rung a bell when saying the name. The bell is also part of the logo. > Ever since looking at the transcript and finally understanding what this was all about, I was attempting to picture in my head the proper Mandarin pronunciation. I think I got it pretty fine at several occasions, but I'll have to watch the video.
>> OK, I got to the part: >> "Every- >> thing in the new system is menu-driven, somewhat >> in the style of “Microsoft Word” but considerably >> enhanced:" > >> So I guess we'll have to wait for pigs to fly before we port LyX to iTeX. > > Isn't LyX already an iTeX¹ prototype? > > * menu-driven > > * Of course the character set for my new system > is Unicode, so that there is 100% support for all of > the languages and metalanguages of the world. > > * Automatic spelling and grammar correction are built in > for each language, > > * Different languages can freely be intermixed at will, always with > appropriate ligatures, kerning, and hyphenation. > > * arbitrary symbolic calculations, with polynomials and power series and > matrices and partial differential equation solvers and convex > optimization, > > * the production of hyperdocuments and web pages > > Still lacking are the "innovative pricing strategies". > ..and support for 3D printing. :) But the other features are well present, especially the brand new out-of-the-box support for R. Cheers Liviu > > Günter > > > ¹ [A bell rings at this point.] > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
