On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:28:18PM +0200, Ronny Buchmann wrote:
> * Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-30 16:26] schrieb:
> > > | Only to those people who know all the various in-jokes and references.
> > >
> > > eh? '666'?
> > >
> > > what do _you_ think/assosiate when you see "666"?
> >
> i only think "hä, was is los?" or for non germans "what? what's going on here?"
> (hoping htat not only kayvan had the right to answer ;)
>
Proving my point, exactly!
While Lars and the rest of the developers know what it means, its
meaning is embedded inside a host of prior jokes and conversations (along
with popular culture images and biblical references).
Long ago, when LyX had the TeX font way of Embedding Raw Text, the
font color was set to red in order to distinguish it from the rest
of the document. For various reasons, people began referring
to this embedded text as "evil red text".
Now, at Bolzano, the developers cleaned up the special-cases in the
LyX code dealing with this TeX font by creating a new kind of inset.
The TeX font way disappeared and the new inset was its replacement.
The "666" is a reference to the mark of the Beast (the devil) from
the Book of Revealation. So, as a clever joke, the inset was named the
"666 inset" (transformed from ERT, for Evil Red Text).
Like I said, too many in-jokes and obscure references. If we
just want to call it the ERT inset (for Embedded Raw Text) and then
make some kind of mention in the documentation that this also refers
to Evil Red Text, that's fine with me.
Best regards,
---Kayvan
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