From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap into troff
Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 22:29:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201805060229.w462T9Ee018534@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Pronunciation_and_spelling
Yes, TeX is supposed to be pronounced as Germans do Bach. And
Knuth further recommends that the name be typeset as a logo with
one letter off the base line. Damned if an awful lot of people,
especially LaTeX users, don't follow his advice. I've known
and admired Knuth for over 50 years, but part ways with him
on this. If you use the ready-made LaTeX logo in running text,
so should you also use flourished cursive for Coca-Cola and
Ford; and back in the day, discordantly slanted letters for
Holiday Inn. It's mad and it's a pox on the page.
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2018-05-06 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-06 2:29 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2018-05-06 3:36 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 0:29 ` George Michaelson
2018-05-08 0:39 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-08 2:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-08 2:43 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-08 4:11 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 14:54 ` Nemo
2018-05-08 16:42 ` Paul Winalski
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