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From: gary@darth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Bo Derek
Message-ID: <181@darth.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 13:39:14 EST
Article-I.D.: darth.181
Posted: Fri Feb 27 13:39:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 10:03:11 EST
References: <626@bobkat.UUCP> <2589@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Reply-To: gary@darth.UUCP (Gary Wisniewski)
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Summary: Knuthisms

In article <2589@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> iau@ukc.ukc.ac.uk (I.A.Utting) writes:
>In article <626@bobkat.UUCP> Pedz Thing writes:
>>I was look in the index of the TeXbook and stumbled across an entry
>>for Bo Derek.  [ ... ] I finally look in the
>>texman.tex file and found that the entry comes [ after a ] 10
>
>I noticed this as well, and assumed that it was one of those things that
>publishers put into books to help spot copyright infingements (originally
> [...] On the other hand, fit might just be a joke ...

A joke to be sure.  If anything, Don Knuth's publisher (Addison-Wesley)
gets an A+ for patience.  I remember reading an article in some forgotten
issue of a science magazine.  The article described Don's dissatisfaction
with current mathematical typesetting technology.  Don decided to write
a better typesetting program: the initial estimate was 3 months to
completion.  Years later, TeX becomes a notable force in computerized
typesetting.  The article had a great photo of Knuth in what I supposed
was his home.  He was sitting on the floor, surrounded by large sheets 
of graph paper with giant glyphs (from cmr fonts, I guess) drawn on them.

Sorry for the digression ... the point was that the Bo Derek index entry
reminds me that Knuth has an inclination to such things.  One of the
volumes of "The Art of Computer Programming" (Vol 1, I believe), contains
the following two index entries:

	Circular Reasoning,
		See Reasoning, Circular

	Reasoning, Circular
		See Circular Reasoning

Gary J. Wisniewski
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