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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-logos.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-logos.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c0fd754edb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-logos.html @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +<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 +'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. +<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 +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 'META O T'). +You needn't despair, however - 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. +<p>While the author of this FAQ list can't quite bring himself to do away +with the bumpy-road logos herein, he regularly advises everyone else +to... +<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> |