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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label bold-extras</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>How to do bold-tt or bold-sc</h3>
+<p/>LaTeX, as delivered, offers no means of handling bold &ldquo;teletype&rdquo;
+or small-caps fonts. There&rsquo;s a practical reason for this (Knuth never
+designed such fonts), but there are typographical considerations too
+(the &ldquo;medium weight&rdquo; <code>cmtt</code> font is already pretty bold (by
+comparison with other fixed-width fonts), and bold small-caps is not
+popular with many professional typographers).
+<p/>There&rsquo;s a set of &ldquo;extra&rdquo; Metafont files on CTAN that provide bold
+versions of both <code>cmtt</code> and <code>cmcsc</code> (the small caps font). With
+modern TeX distributions, one may bring these fonts into use simply
+by placing them in an
+<a href="FAQ-install-where.html">appropriate place in the <em>texmf</em> tree</a>
+(these are (La)TeX-specific files, so the &ldquo;<em>public</em>&rdquo; supplier
+would be an appropriate place). Once you&rsquo;ve
+<a href="FAQ-inst-wlcf.html">rebuilt the file indexes as necessary</a>,
+TeX (and friends) will automatically build whatever font files they
+need when you first make reference to them. There&rsquo;s a jiffy package
+<i>bold-extra</i> that builds the necessary font data structures
+so that you can use the fonts within LaTeX.
+<p/>Another alternative is to use the <a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">EC fonts</a>,
+which come with bold variants of the small-caps fonts.
+<p/>If you need to use Type 1 fonts, you can&rsquo;t proceed with Knuth-style
+fonts, since there are no Type 1 versions of the <i>mf-extra</i>
+set. There are, however, Type 1 distributions of the EC fonts, so you
+can switch to EC and use them; alternatives are discussed in
+<a href="FAQ-type1T1.html">8-bit Type 1 fonts</a>.
+<p/>Of course, commercial fixed-width fonts (even the default
+<i>Courier</i>) almost always come with a bold variant, so that&rsquo;s
+not a problem. Furthermore <a href="FAQ-usepsfont.html">PSNFSS</a>
+will usually provide &ldquo;faked&rdquo; small caps fonts, and has no
+compunctions about providing them in a bold form. <i>Courier</i>
+is (as we all know, to our cost) freely available; a far more
+presentable monospace font is <i>LuxiMono</i>, which is also
+freely available (monospace text in the typeset version of this
+FAQ uses <i>LuxiMono</i>, with the metrics and LaTeX
+support available on the archive.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>bold-extra.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/bold-extra.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/bold-extra.sty</a>
+<dt><tt><i>bold tt and small caps fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold.zip">fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>LuxiMono fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/LuxiMono.zip">fonts/LuxiMono</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/LuxiMono.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/LuxiMono/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=bold-extras">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=bold-extras</a>
+</body>