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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ turning into a book on RISC-V programming in assembly language.
 
 Pull requests are welcome.
 
-I developed this using LaTeX via texlive.  LaTex is very portable, you should 
+I developed this using LaTeX via texlive.  LaTeX is very portable, you should 
 be able to tinker with it on most any platform.  
 
 The following worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: