[luatex] LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX logos

[Hans Hagen]

On 9-3-2010 1:52, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 8 March 2010 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>   >  On 24-2-2010 14:03, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>   >  >  Élie Roux wrote:
>   >  >>  Hello,
>   >  >>
>   >  >>  While trying to get the \LuaTeX and \LuaLaTeX macros into the
>   >  >>  LaTeX metalogo package, I tried to make the logos a bit more
>   >  >>  fancy but still respecting the style of the LuaTeX manual. Here
>   >  >>  is my attempt. What do you think about it? My personal favorites
>   >  >>  are proposal 3 for both.
>   >  >
>   >  >  You probably already know how I feel about this: proposal 1 is my
>   >  >  favorite.
>   >
>   >  Indeed. No fancy shifting needed. It also avoids endless
>   >  discussions about how to deal with it in whatever font: just
>   >  Lua\TeX as we have been using right from the start.
>   >
>   >  I don't care about the lualatex logo.
>
> Hans, I fully agree.  This "fancy shifting" is ridiculous, of course.
> But it's actually unavoidable because it was introduced by Knuth and
> we all know that Knuth is infallible. IMO it's (more than) sufficient
> if "Lua\TeX" contains "\TeX".

indeed, and i have definitely have no problem with the tex logo at all 
as it's Don's nice joke; it's just the additional 'funny' shifting in 
derived logos that i dislike (esp when using special fonts as in etex 
and amstex cum suis)

ok, i admit that the random generated metafun logo is also somwhat over 
the top but at least it sits on the baseline

> In order to avoid endless discussions I think that Taco should decide
> and carve his decision in stone.

don't worry, we already decided for the simple case long ago; we made 
the decision before the first version of luatex was demonstrated - at 
the tug conference in wuhan/china -)

btw, the first instance luatex binary was generated by hartmut so that 
was actually the moment that the name 'luatex' as program showed up 
first; those historic bits and pieces are described someplace

Hans


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