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| 564.1 | meta == change | OLDTMR::WALLACE | | Fri Aug 11 1989 11:01 | 13 |
| Meta (From American Heritage dictionary)
1. Changed or transfered
2. Situated behind
A METAcharater (for example) is a character (typicaly escape) which you
type before another character ("situated behind") to "change" the
meaning of the secound character. More specificly, in MicroEmacs if I
type the letter "E" that letter will be inserted into my editing buffer
but if I type the two key sequence "<ESC>E" the letter "E" does not get
inserted into the buffer but instead a command is executed (in my case
EXIT).
Ray
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| 564.2 | | LDP::WEAVER | Laboratory Data Products/Science | Fri Aug 11 1989 18:58 | 8 |
| Metafont is a generic font description used by TeX, which is a document
processing system similar in concept to RUNOFF, but much more advanced
written by Donald Knuth in the mid-late '70's. The MetaFont program will
take a font description and produce a font for a particular device. There
is probably a TeX conference around in Digital where you could get more
information if needed.
-Dave
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| 564.3 | Thanks | SUBURB::JAMESH | | Mon Aug 14 1989 04:04 | 3 |
| Thanks very much. I am now much wiser and those Metaxxx have now
become a lot more meaningfull. Much appreciated.
...Howard
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| 564.4 | Meta-convention | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Thu Aug 17 1989 10:54 | 7 |
| Here's an example I saw on the news.
Apparently, there was a convention in Boston last week of people that
stage conventions. An ironic concept - a convention dedicated to the
planning and process of putting on a convetion. I'd call that a
"meta-convention".
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