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[edit] TeX or TeX

I'm reverting user:Schutz's last change, until he or she defends the implicit claim that "TeX" is more correct than Knuth's own preferred form "TeX". —Tamfang 08:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

This was discussed on Talk:TeX. Knuth's prefered form is not TeX; he wrote an entire article to explain how to typeset the logo properly (see TeX#_note-29), that is, where each letter subtly touches its neighbours. In addition, Knuth himself uses the simple form "TeX" in HTML, see for example [1] on his web site, which seems to indicate that this is his preferred form, at least in HTML. Schutz 12:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Douglas Hofstadter

I recall an attack by Hofstadter on Knuth in relation to the nature of universality specifically on the basis of 'metafonts'. I believe the article in question is in 'Metamagical Themas' - 203.206.251.225 12:27, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I remember it too. Hofstadter's point was that the diversity of fonts cannot be captured by a manageably small number of variables. Doesn't invalidate the metafont concept for subsets of that variety, though. —Tamfang 19:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Note 1

The note is wrong, at least in the online file. That cite doesn't appear in the document.

[edit] Citation; genre

The citation about getting an artist to design a font with 60 parameters does not occur in the cited document.

The genre of MetaFont is definitely not "computer font". I changed it to "computer language", but if there is a more accurate genre, please correct me. --Slashme 12:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)