[p0ppe]

Telling people you like LaTeX might also get you some funny looks.

[angry_octet]

Only if you pronounce it incorrectly.

[globuous]

Or searching « latex color red » on Google at work when you’re looking for how to color text for your paper ;p

[skytreader]

Oh are we sharing accidentally embarrassing Google searches now?

There was a time I was asked to work with a C code base that was last touched three years ago. Now, C in any standard isn't even my forte. It was doing some string manipulation whose behavior I can't exactly understand. Thinking I need a basics refresher, I Googled "c strings".

Woops. Got to be among my quickest tab closes. Cue look around if anyone happened to be looking at my monitor too.

(I will save people the mystery and possible blushes: apparently there's a type of lingerie called a "C string", in the same fashion as a "G string". The more you know.)

[laputan_machine]

But in that case the 'X' is a chi, so it's more like 'Lay-tek' than 'Latex' ;)

[qznc]

Why don’t we start writing Laτέχ?

[YawningAngel]

Most people can't easily type those characters

[majewsky]

Let's make a petition to HN to support proper typesetting of the LaTeX logo when you input "\LaTeX".

[mrslave]

I was ranked favorably in a job application once because I had used LaTeX to produce my CV, and had also listed `\LaTeX` (rendered nicely) under publishing & communication skills. You never know what's going to pique the hiring manager's interest. Turns out it gave him a bout of nostalgia for his days at university studying mathematics.