[texhax] "@" : vowel or glottal stop ? (was : Some puzzling TeX)

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-02-19 at 10:37:16 +0000, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

 > I have never understood (and continue to fail to understand)
 > why, when Don made it quite clear in Plain.TeX that "@" is a
 > vowel, Leslie and his followers insist on treating it as
 > a glottal stop.  Why one earth did they use the horribly
 > ugly :
 > 
 > 	\@firstofone
 > 
 > instead of the far more intuitive and elegant :
 > 
 > 	\first at fone

@t's n@@th at r @nt@@t at ve n at r @l at g@nt.

R at g@rds,
  R@@nh at rd

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