From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 9 12:21:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (unknown [216.152.64.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9B937B6A3 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from whenever ([216.152.68.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:21:03 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" Cc: Subject: RE: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008] Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:21:12 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Rahul Siddharthan writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav said on Feb 8, 2001 at 14:57:57: > > > This discussion reminds me of the LaTeX macros that you use instead of > > > third person singular pronouns and possessive adjectives, which > > > alternate between the male and female form. > > I didn't know about this. Is it available on the ctan archives? > > I believe it's standard. I don't remember the name of the macros, > though I think it's something like \heshe, \Heshe, \hisher, \Hisher. > > DES The problem with these is that if you don't implement \shehe and \herhis as well, you're still being sexist. And if both are implemented, you have to chose which to use. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message