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<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
-&lsquo;bumpy road&rsquo; logos such as AMSTeX, PicTeX, BibTeX, and so on,
-produced in a flurry of different fonts, sizes, and baselines &mdash; 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 &lsquo;A&rsquo; and a lowered &lsquo;E&rsquo;)
-and marketing input from Addison-Wesley led to the even
-stranger current logo
-
- LaTeX2e, which appends a lowered single-stroke Greek letter
- epsilon.
+&lsquo;bumpy road&rsquo; logos for TeX entities such as AMSTeX, PicTeX,
+BibTeX, and so on, produced in a flurry of different fonts, sizes,
+and baselines &mdash; 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 &lsquo;A&rsquo; and a
+lowered &lsquo;E&rsquo;) and marketing input from Addison-Wesley led to the even
+stranger current logo for LaTeX2e, which appends a lowered
+single-stroke Greek letter &epsilon;.
<p/>Sensible users don&rsquo;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&rsquo;t
@@ -28,19 +25,18 @@ use of the Knuthian font for MetaPost (you might get
- something like &lsquo;META&nbsp;O&nbsp;T&rsquo;).
-You needn&rsquo;t despair, however &mdash; the author himself uses just &lsquo;MetaPost&rsquo;.
+ something like &lsquo;META&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;O&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;T&rsquo;).
+You needn&rsquo;t despair, however &mdash; most versions of the logo font
+distributed nowadays contain the missing letters, and the author
+himself uses just &lsquo;MetaPost&rsquo;.
<p/>For those who don&rsquo;t wish to acquire the &lsquo;proper&rsquo; 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>
-
for BibTeX, and so on.
<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>mflogo.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mflogo.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mflogo</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mflogo.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mflogo/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>texnames.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/biblio/texnames.sty">info/biblio/texnames.sty</a>
+<dt><tt><i>mflogo.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mflogo.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mflogo</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mflogo/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>texnames.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archiveinfo/biblio/texnames.sty">info/biblio/texnames.sty</a>
</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=logos">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=logos</a>
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