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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@ter...>
Subject: combining characters
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:53:46 +0100

> Would be neat if someone cloned NeWS using Ghostscript as the engine, but

i can't see combining two gargantuan peculiar characters as fitting under any of these definitions
(having excluded the cattle):

  Neat, a. [Compar. /Neater/ (?); superl. /Neatest/.] [OE. nett,
F. nett, fr. L. nitidus, fr. nitere to shine.  Cf. /Nitid/, /Net/,
a., /Natty/.] 

  1. Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean;
cleanly; tidy.
  If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor body it
was that was so surprisingly neat and clean. Law.
  
  2. Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry;
simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste;
as, a neat style; a neat dress.
  
  3. Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as,
neat brandy. "Our old wine neat."  Chapman.
  
  4. Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice;
finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
  
  5. With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense
usually written net. See /Net/, a., 3.]
  neat line (Civil Engin.), a line to which work is to be built
or formed. -- 
  Neat work, work built or formed to neat lines.
  Syn. -- Nice; pure; cleanly; tidy; trim; spruce.