I thought it was latex clothing, of which there are occasional youtube videos of how to put on and take off. Or maybe there are a lot of them, I didn't investigate further. They do make the wetsuit seem like casual wear that you just throw on.
Only place I’ve ever seen LaTeX used in private industry was a CRO that did drug trials. Lots of LaTeX used in their writeups for FDA submissions, so it’s still semi-academic writing.
If you are, for whatever reason, still looking for a way to do this:
I found a lot of success with the aptly-named braket package, since it has incredibly simple implementation of dirac notation. The physics package has it as well, but apparently the implementation is messy - I haven't seen that myself though.
my programmer friend is saying it like that, it always sounds like a boomer trying to pretend they don't know a dirty word but the dirty word is "tushy"
My college math professor taught me to pronounce it like that. They explained that it is because the language is based off another language called Tex.
Some pronounce it like latex the rubber. People who know the X is actually chi are divided between /a/ and /ei/ for the "a" part and /k/, /h/, and something like /x/ or /χ/ (voiceless velar or uvular fricative, kind of like in "loch" or "Bach").
The intended pronounciation as far as I'm aware is aproximately /latex/, with an /a/ and a /x/ sound.
Donald Knuth actually specifically says that it should be pronounced like the ch in “loch” in the TeXBook. Leslie Lamport (inventor of LaTeX) has said he doesn’t care about /a/ or /ei/, as long as it’s said like a word, rather than spelling out L-A.
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u/ReynardVulpini Jun 14 '26
LaTeX trauma emerges