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Article #2675Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names)
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 1991 23:24
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 1991 23:24
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In article <1991Jan13.231540.3218@csis.dit.csiro.au>, ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) says: "A dissenting point of view is that you should spell computer language names just as the defining documents specified them. Thus FORTRAN, BASIC, but Pascal and TeX." I thought it was written in the defining document as "TEX", with the E (or epsilon) subscripted. For some reason, netters have felt that the subscripting was more important to indicate than the case of the letters, hence the ASCII representation as "TeX". As far as I know, there is no precedent for this in any other technical usage, let alone normal English. Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-71-562-889 Computer Services Dept fax: +64-71-384-066 University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+13:00
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!ldo From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names) Message-ID: <1991Jan21.122438.2750@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 20 Jan 91 23:24:38 GMT References: <3561@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <14834@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <1991Jan11.203246.12599@nixtdc.uucp> <1991Jan13.231540.3218@csis.dit.csiro.au> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 21