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Article #2678Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names)
From: Bruce.Hoult
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 02:53
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 02:53
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: >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". What about "NeXT", which (on the machine) is written with all the letters the same size. In this case people seem to have felt that the shape of the letters was more important than the size. -- Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz Twisted pair: +64 4 772 116 BIX: brucehoult Last Resort: PO Box 4145 Wellington, NZ "...a plan so cunning, you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel..."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Bruce.Hoult From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names) Message-ID: <1991Jan21.025341.16995@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 21 Jan 91 02:53:41 GMT References: <1991Jan11.203246.12599@nixtdc.uucp> <1991Jan13.231540.3218@csis.dit.csiro.au> <1991Jan21.122438.2750@waikato.ac.nz> Sender: Bruce.Hoult@actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Hoult) Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 16 Comment-To: ldo@waikato.ac.nz