From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch Newsgroups: net.flame Title: Re: NOT ALL LOWER CASE Article-I.D.: dadla-b.365 Posted: Thu Mar 3 11:20:06 1983 Received: Fri Mar 11 06:28:11 1983 References: ucbvax.1017 OK, Ken, heres a flame from a master arsonist. WHY do certain people assume that their special escape sequences will work on other people's terminals? It's not bad enough that I have to read stuff by wilful illiterates who refuse to punctuate or capitalize for whatever pinheaded reasons (inflammatory enough, Ken?) but to add insult to injury, some subversives from HP or some such off-the-wall place insist on trying to include their boldface, italic, blinkety-blanking, or whatever they are, special terminal field sequences inside otherwise harmless text. This causes no end of eye-wrenching. It's even worse than that silly lopsided smiley-face that some people seem to want to put on everything they write, as if seeing an obscure little typographical glitch that resembles certain euphemistic replacements for foul language, should defuse my irritation at their generally unnecessary remarks (you're on a roll, hutch, keep stoking) when I HATE misplaced punctuation almost as much as the oddball terminal commands! And besides, why do people think that quotes should be used for emphasis? Why can't they enclose quoted words INSIDE the quote marks? Foo'' just doesn't do it for me, people. 'Foo' is the common usage. (Hmm. Losing the razor-edge of nastiness, hutch. Should either quit or say something really off-the-wall.) You know, folks, this whole discussion of upper and lower case stuff reminds me of the pseudo-religious claptrap that was exchanged by our departed comrade rvpalliende. It really doesn't matter whether you have an atrophied little finger, or only one hand, so you can't hit SHIFT and j-random-key at the same time. After all, what are text processors for? Isn't this the great UN*X system, the sole and holy repository of the true faith: tools-based systems design? Why can't we just write a preprocessor into, say, inews, which would run spell, and capitalize and/or format into a network-wide standard. And we can spend the next four years discussing the standard, right here in net.flame! hutch (Oops. Two paragraphs above I meant to say "rvpalliende and his friends" rather than just "rvpalliende.")