[OS X TeX] A heretic thought

[Nestor E. Aguilera]

On 4 Aug 2014, at 18:29, Axel E. Retif wrote:

> On 08/04/2014 03:43 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
> 
>> 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. Would it not look nicer?
> 
> No. I would not buy it just for that. For me, it would be a disrespect for the work of Knuth, Lamport, and the LaTeX3 team.
> 
> That's the only thing I dislike about Texmaker (which I write TeXmaker anyway) ---I recommend it a lot, but don't use it myself (I only use Emacs on GNU/Linux and TeXShop on Mac OS X).
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Axel

My one cent: a middle ground solution may be to write the "logo" (\TeX, \LaTeX, etc.) in very few places (perhaps at the beginning), and otherwise use "latex" (or "LaTeX", but this already may become tiresome).

I like Michael's suggestion of using a macro such as \latex, as you may postpone your decision.

Cheers,

Nestor