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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 f0e08fac9cc..5a3df91fe7d 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 +5,14 @@ <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 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 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 -stranger current logo - - LaTeX2e, which appends a lowered single-stroke Greek letter - epsilon. +‘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 +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 +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, 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 @@ -28,19 +25,18 @@ use of the Knuthian font for MetaPost (you might get - something like ‘META O T’). -You needn’t despair, however — the author himself uses just ‘MetaPost’. + 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 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> </body> |