From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/46330 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: context mascot Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:27:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4946D9E4.8080907@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229380299 18461 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2008 22:31:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:31:39 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Dec 15 23:32:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCLzR-0005a4-9Z for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:32:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C63D1FC03; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:31:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04090-04-7; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:30:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3161FB1D; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:28:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9DC1FB14 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:28:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04395-02-5 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:27:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F41D1FC16 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:27:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.11]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 17703-1840426 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:27:50 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.11 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:46330 Archived-At: luigi scarso wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Hi, > > >> Have we a mascot ? > >> > >> http://chl.be/mascots/ > > > > Yes we do. Its the dutch cow :-) > > I thought that people in Bohinj more ore less agreed(*) that we > don't want > any animals as a logo (except for your elephant, of course ;-)). Wasn't > this the reason, we tried hard to come up with a geometrically formed > context logo? > > It's not a logo. > It's a mascot, like TeX lion, linux penguin, GNU gnu and so on . > Cow fonts was made from Duane Bibby's illustrations ,as far I know, > so no doubt that they are in TeX tradition Sure, but that's just visual jokes; you're not advocating a real 'pluche' animal are you? (hm, reminds me of this inflatable pig that the pink floyd guys use(d), a big inflatable cow floating above the context conference location) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________