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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>
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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.

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