From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap into troff
Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 23:36:17 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1805052335060.55205@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201805060229.w462T9Ee018534@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
On Sat, 5 May 2018, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>> 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
>
TeX drives me up a damn wall sometimes. It certainly is better suited
than, say, LibreOffice or M$ Word for what I do with it, but I still
frequently find myself butting heads with it.
-uso.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-06 2:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-06 3:36 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
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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