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Re: [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap, into trof


From: John Gardner
Subject: Re: [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap, into troff
Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 08:34:14 +1000

I do too. Always have, and saying "Tecks" just sounds unnatural to me. =)

> Isn't that correct?

Yes, from the words of Knuth himself, I believe.

In other words, I still refuse to humour Steve Wilhite by NOT pronouncing
"GIF" as "Jiff". =) CompuServe can consider it payback for the patent scare.

On 5 May 2018 at 08:29, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Steffen,
>
> > Interestingly he mispronounces TeX as Tech
>
> So do I these days.  Isn't that correct?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Pronunciation_and_spelling
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
> https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
>
>


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