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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>
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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.