From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 23:36:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap into troff In-Reply-To: <201805060229.w462T9Ee018534@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201805060229.w462T9Ee018534@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: 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.