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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label logos</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Typesetting all those TeX-related logos</h3>
+<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.
+<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
+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
+<i>mflogo</i> package; but be aware that booby-traps surround the
+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;.
+<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>
+</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>