Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: "TeX" (was Re: Capitalization & programming language names) Message-ID: Date: 21 Jan 91 10:56:03 GMT References: <3561@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <14834@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <1991Jan11.203246.12599@nixtdc.uucp> <1991Jan13.231540.3218@csis.dit.csiro.au> <1991Jan21.122438.2750@waikato.ac.nz> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 18 In-reply-to: ldo@waikato.ac.nz's message of 20 Jan 91 23:24:38 GMT >>>>> 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