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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label logos</title>
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<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 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
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&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.
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<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>
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<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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