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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000 |
commit | 3f1971c9b7717818766692c9aa497e20e7472f2c (patch) | |
tree | 678de0190b6643b1b21fd9441fa1387bce180726 /Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-logos.html | |
parent | c7c3b090320a234149dbe23315e2a15a2773ac79 (diff) |
FAQ-en 3.19d (7apr10)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-logos.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-logos.html index 021f1107ee7..33c22806f22 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-logos.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-logos.html @@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ <p/>Knuth was making a particular point about the capabilities of TeX when he defined the logo. Unfortunately, many believe, he thereby opened floodgates to give the world a whole range of rather silly -‘bumpy road’ logos for TeX entities such as AMSTeX, PicTeX, +‘bumpy road’ logos for TeX entities such as AMSTeX, PicTeX, BibTeX, and so on, produced in a flurry of different fonts, sizes, -and baselines — indeed, everything one might hope to cause them to +and baselines — indeed, everything one might hope to cause them to obstruct the reading process. In particular, Lamport invented -LaTeX (silly enough in itself, with a raised small ‘A’ and a -lowered ‘E’) and marketing input from Addison-Wesley led to the even +LaTeX (silly enough in itself, with a raised small ‘A’ and a +lowered ‘E’) and marketing input from Addison-Wesley led to the even stranger current logo for LaTeX2e, which appends a lowered single-stroke Greek letter ε. -<p/>Sensible users don’t have to follow this stuff wherever it goes, +<p/>Sensible users don’t have to follow this stuff wherever it goes, but, for those who insist, a large collection of logos is defined in -the <i>texnames</i> package (but note that this set of macros isn’t +the <i>texnames</i> package (but note that this set of macros isn’t entirely reliable in LaTeX2e). The Metafont and MetaPost logos can be set in fonts that LaTeX2e knows about (so that they scale with the surrounding text) using the @@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ use of the Knuthian font for MetaPost (you might get - something like ‘META&nbsp;&nbsp;O&nbsp;&nbsp;T’). -You needn’t despair, however — most versions of the logo font + something like ‘META&nbsp;&nbsp;O&nbsp;&nbsp;T’). +You needn’t despair, however — most versions of the logo font distributed nowadays contain the missing letters, and the author -himself uses just ‘MetaPost’. -<p/>For those who don’t wish to acquire the ‘proper’ logos, the canonical +himself uses just ‘MetaPost’. +<p/>For those who don’t wish to acquire the ‘proper’ logos, the canonical thing to do is to say <code>AMS-</code><code>\</code><code>TeX</code> for AMSTeX, <code>Pic</code><code>\</code><code>TeX</code> for PicTeX, <code>Bib</code><code>\</code><code>TeX</code> |