Macro or package for typesetting “LaTeX” (the name)?

Question

I just realized there's a LaTeX package for printing the text of "lorem ipsum".

Surely then, there's also a macro / package for writing "LaTeX" (with the proper super-/subscript) in a document.

But I found googling for this a bit hard. ("LaTeX macro"? Probably not.)

Can any of you groks help me out here?

Answer 1

The command \LaTeX should produce what you want. You'd probably want to add a \<space> after it if used inside a sentence.

Answer 2

This is covered in many tutorials like lshort. But here's a more complete list:

• \LaTeX typesets the LaTeX logo
• \LaTeXe typesets the LaTeX2e logo
• \TeX typesets the original TeX logo. You can often use it to obtain other TeX-based logos.
• \AmSTeX, \BibTeX, \SliTeX and \PlainTeX typeset what their names say. These are defined in the doc package.
• \XeTeX, \XeLaTeX, \LuaTeX and \LuaLaTeX can be obtained with the metalogo package
• e-TeX and some other logos are available in package hologo
• Finally, you can get the METAFONT logo with the package mflogo

The metalogo package also allows you to customize the appearance of \TeX, \LaTeX, \LaTeXe, \XeTeX, \XeLaTeX, \LuaTeX and \LuaLaTeX logos, which is useful if you use a font other than Computer Modern.

See also http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=logos.

Answer 3

Actually, the gmutils package contains some improvements: not only logos typeset using that package work better with non-CM fonts, but it also defines a \DeclareLogo command, which takes care of logos in PDF bookmarks.