Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names)

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From: Lars P. Fischer
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 10:56

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>>>>> On 20 Jan 91 23:24:38 GMT, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro) said:

Lawrence> For some reason, netters have felt that the subscripting was
Lawrence> more important to indicate than the case of the letters,
Lawrence> hence the ASCII representation as "TeX".

Lawrence> As far as I know, there is no precedent for this in any
Lawrence> other technical usage, let alone normal English.

NeWS -- the Network extensible Window System.

In fact, when typing a technical manuscript these days, I find that
the shift key is one of the most-used keys :-)

/Lars
--
Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.auc.dk    |  Life is hard, and then you die.
CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK.  |             - The Immaterial

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Subject: Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names)
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