[OS X TeX] A heretic thought

George Gratzer gratzer at me.com
Sun Aug 10 17:03:11 EDT 2014


Hi Ross,

If you recall, this thread started with:

> I started working on the 5th edition of More Math into LaTeX.
> 
> And I have a thought. What would happen if  write 
> 
> Tex
> 
> and 
> 
> LaTex
> 
> no fancy staff. 

George

On Aug 10, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi George,
> 
> On 11/08/2014, at 5:07, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ross,
>> 
>> But if it is plain text, not much of a logo.
> 
> It is not meant to be plain text.
> It is meant to have the raised, smaller uppercase A 
> and the lowered, slightly smaller uppercase E.
> 
> Set it once properly (i.e. with appropriate kerning)
> inside a box, then have your macro just copy the box.
> If you need different sizes, e.g for headings, then the macro
> can involve scaling the box to match the font height.
> 
>> I tried a chapter title, looked surprisingly good upright.
> 
> I think it should always be upright.
> Indeed, always with serifs.
> 
> 
> If you are concerned about Copy/Paste, or other forms of text extraction, then tag the logo using /ActualText , to supply a textual replacement.  This is precisely one of the stated purposes of /ActualText .
> 
>> 
>> George
> 
> 
> Hopethis helps,
> 
>  Ross
> 
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