[tex-live] phaistos

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Fri Mar 6 14:34:23 CET 2015


I just tried 

	texdoc phaistos

and looked at the macro names for the glyphs.  I noticed one irregularity:

	\PHgaunlet

The word for that object is gauntlet.  If `gaunlet' is not a typo
in the doc file, it would be good to add the proper name

	\PHgauntlet

in the documentation and TeX code.  Otherwise, we'll be propagating a
mistake like that Adobe made in *.afm files with

	guillemotright and guillemotleft,

which should have been

	guillemetright and guillemetleft;

they confused the French name for bracketing delimiters with the name
for a sea bird (the two words are etymologically related, however).

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