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Re: getting out of LaTeX

Subject: Re: getting out of LaTeX
From: "Peter T. Daniels"
Date: 31 Aug 2006 06:20:53 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Lee Sau Dan wrote:
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>     >> > >"Key bindings" is the wrong term.
>     >> >
>     >> > Keyboard shortcuts.
>     >>
>     >> Who dictates that "key bindings" is the wrong term?
>
>     Peter> The English language? If that phrase had occurred out of
>     Peter> context, no one could have guessed what was intended.
>
> You mean Richard M Stallman isn't a native speaker of English?

No idea. Who he? The name could very well be German.

We can guess what "foot bindings" are without knowing a thing about the
treatment of women in pre-modern China. But "key bindings"??


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