Assume I write something about LaTeX in email. I use UTF-8 so I can use any UNICODE character I want. Which characters should I technically use for name "LaTeX"? I believe that LaTeX originally did not mean letters L + a + T + e + X (that is, mixture of uppercase and lowercase ASCII characters). I know that usually LaTeX is written in ASCII characters only outside LaTeX source code where one just enters \LaTeX
.
1 Answer
The latex
logo does not contain any special characters. It has only normal uppercase roman letters. It is traditionally typed in latex
itself with said logo with the command \LaTeX
. Outside of latex
, people usually write "LaTeX" or "latex". Also see Wikipedia on this.
\LaTeX
is a logo. I normally use latex or pdflatex when I mean the application or when I'm lazy, and LaTeX for the format.Greek Capital Letter Xi