Make a "LyX" logo without using Lyx

[thoma...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

Is there a command to makey a "LyX" logo, just like the \LaTeX command
print the "LaTeX" logo ? I am writing a document with LaTeX, not Lyx,
and I have no idea how I could produce the LyX logo, since I am
mentionning this app...

Thank you
Thomas

[William F. Adams]

Seems to be defined as:

\providecommand{\LyX}{L\kern-.1667em\lower.25em\hbox{Y}\kern-.125emX\@}

May need to be adjusted for non-CM/LM fonts.

Please use in moderation.

William

[Herbert Voss]

thoma...@gmail.com schrieb:

export a LyX document to LaTeX and look into the fle, then
you'll find \newcommand\LyX{...}

Herbert

[thoma...@gmail.com]

Herbert Voss wrote:
> export a LyX document to LaTeX and look into the fle, then
> you'll find \newcommand\LyX{...}

I did that and find exactly the command given by William.
Thanks both of you!

Thomas

[Peter Flynn]

Hear, hear. This from Charles Fyffe:

"Dont' use the client's name-style in the copy and expect it to be
read, unless his name-style is in a type and you are using it for the
body copy. This is especially true of a name-block (plate) with white
letters out of black.

"The client, on the other hand, tries to use his name style
everywhere -- I have even known one who insisted that minute
name-blocks be inserted in the copy. This desire is not just
narcissism in print -- our own name always jumps out of the
surrounding copy, and it is difficult to persuare anyone that this is
not so for the rest of the world. The reader, in fact, has a built-in
rejection apparatus that ignores the alien name-block and jumps from
type to type -- with sometimes disastrous effects on the coherence of
the copy." (Basic Copyfitting, Vista, 1969)

He was of course writing in the days of metal and film typesetting,
but I sometimes feel that it is unfortunate that the "camel" effect
of the traditional [La]TeX-etc logotypes gives the text a lumpy look
when they occur too frequently (despite his exemption in the first
paragraph). I've seen people try to do things like
\colorbox{black}{\color{white}\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont\bfseries
\itshape Microsoft\smash{\textsuperscript\textregistered}} in the
middle of a paragraph everywhere that the company name appeared. That
*is* narcissism and it's often evident in the form of marketing vanity.

///Peter