There were lots of name suggestions in the following discussion, also please bear in mind the concerns about availability of domain names.
http://etherpad.com/jtzJxcpeV4 -á. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:18, Norbert Nemec <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not sure whether the name "TeXmacs" has more advantages or more > disadvantages. In my own field (theoretical physics) LaTeX is everywhere and > the excellent LaTeX export is one of the most important features of TeXmacs. > Having "TeX" in the name therefore is an advantage. On the other hand, it > always means that you have to explain "It is like TeX and like emacs, but > actually it is not quite like TeX or like emacs." > > I like the suggestion Quipu. > > The convention on Linux would then demand that Quipu is the Qt variant while > kipu or khipu could be a KDE-enabled variant... :-) > > Next, we could think about a mascott -- How about a snake that has one or > more knots in it? > > I have no idea about the PR effect of this whole idea. Guess, this really > depends on how it is presented. > > Greetings, > Norbert > > > > > > Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> I would like to revive once more the debate on the name for the TeXmacs >> program. There are many reasons for believing that the current name does >> not serve very well the popularity of the program. I've just come across to >> another possibility (among many other already proposed and lost somewhere >> in the internet): Quipu (or kipu, or khipu) >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu ). Apparently this is the ancient way >> Maya had to keep various kind of informations and seems to mean "knot" so >> there is some link with mathematics and with structured information. The >> images of Quipus make me think to trees (of TeXmacs tags). >> >> Here en excerpt of the wikipedia page (nice and worth reading) >> >> " >> Most of the information recorded on the quipus consists of numbers in a >> decimal system;[1] see The encoding system below. >> Some of the knots, as well as other features such as color, are thought >> to represent non-numeric information, which has not been deciphered. It is >> generally thought that the system did not include phonetic symbols >> analogous to letters of the alphabet. However Gary Urton has suggested that >> the quipus used a binary system which could record phonological or >> logographicdata. >> " >> >> >> Best, >> Massimiliano >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Texmacs-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
