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Article #2676Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names)
From: Ken Yap
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 03:14
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 03:14
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>"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. Lowered. >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". Not netters. If my brain hasn't gone missing, Knuth specifically sanctions this orthography for devices that cannot typeset, near the beginning of the TeXbook.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.edu.au!csis!ken From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names) Message-ID: <1991Jan21.031402.10435@csis.dit.csiro.au> Date: 21 Jan 91 03:14:02 GMT References: <1991Jan11.203246.12599@nixtdc.uucp> <1991Jan13.231540.3218@csis.dit.csiro.au> <1991Jan21.122438.2750@waikato.ac.nz> Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology Lines: 16