It's common knowledge that the word 'TeX' was inspired by the Greek word 'τεχ' pronounced "tech".
Just for satisfying my curiosity, anyone knows from where comes the letters 'La' in LaTeX?
[Tex/LaTex] Just curiosity about the ‘LaTeX’ name
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It's common knowledge that the word 'TeX' was inspired by the Greek word 'τεχ' pronounced "tech".
Just for satisfying my curiosity, anyone knows from where comes the letters 'La' in LaTeX?
Best Answer
The word "LaTeX" is an abbreviation of "Lamport's TeX", named after Leslie Lamport. With LaTeX Lamport added a collection of macros to the original TeX program which was made by Donald Knuth.