From 27b184008f93115f4384caad6d1ed9b3f380fda3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:05:23 -0300
Subject: added a note on the origin of the backslash character

---
 dotXCompose | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dotXCompose b/dotXCompose
index 7fe7549..8302b0b 100644
--- a/dotXCompose
+++ b/dotXCompose
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ include "%L"
 <Multi_key> <colon> <equal>		: "≔"	U2254		# COLON EQUALS
 <Multi_key> <equal> <question>		: "≟"	U225f		# QUESTIONED EQUAL TO
 <Multi_key> <s> <q>			: "√"	U221A		# SQUARE ROOT
+    # “(Note: I had put the backslash in position 5/15. It enabled the
+    # ALGOL “and” to be “/\” and the “or” to be “\/”.)” --- Bob Bemer,
+    # http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/www.bobbemer.com/BRACES.HTM, quoting
+    # himself in “A view of the history of the ISO character code”, 1972
 <Multi_key> <slash> <backslash>         : "∧"  U2227           # LOGICAL AND
 <Multi_key> <backslash> <slash>         : "∨"  U2228           # LOGICAL OR
 <Multi_key> <backslash> <underscore> <slash>    : "⊻" U22BB     # XOR
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