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Re: Tex – Show off your best scientific illustration

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Please, could someone who can fix up titles correct the capitalization? Not "Tex" but "TeX". Strictly, the letters are tau-epsilon-chi. And, as Knuth puts it, "when you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist". (Like the "ch" in "loch".) See, e.g., the currently-highest-rated answer at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-cor... .

Tex is the name, TeX is the author's preferred stylization in non-TeX environments (and the most used). Fix is not the best term since it's not broken. You can't force someone to adopt your stylization.

TeX is the name, just like 'xkcd' is the name (not Xkcd or XKCD).

Re: Tex – Show off your best scientific illustration

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tex is the name, TeX is the author's preferred stylization in non-TeX environments (and the most used). Fix is not the best term since it's not broken. You can't force someone to adopt your stylization.

TeX is the name, just like 'xkcd' is the name (not Xkcd or XKCD).

You misunderstand names.

If you want to be pedantic, TeX comes from τέχνη, yet I notice you didn't use Greek letters ΤΕΧ but the Latin letters TEX. Notice they are not the same, but look the same. You also didn't subscript the E.

xkcd is pronounced XKCD, so why not write it as such? See how it forces you to begin sentences with lowercase letters. (By the way, in CSS you would use text-transform and not actually write the lowercase letters since that's just the presentation.)

Do you also thing Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced [ˈalbɪn]) is a real name?

Names are a very complicated things and expecting people to follow every author's sylization is pretentious.

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