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For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. +%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. +\documentclass[english]{article} +\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} +\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} +\usepackage{array} +\usepackage{graphicx} + +\makeatletter + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands. +%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users +\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}} + +%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline +\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\} + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands. + +%\usepackage[letterpaper,text={6.5in,9in}]{geometry} +\usepackage{fullpage} +%\usepackage{fourier} +\usepackage{bera} +\usepackage{arevmath} + +\fboxsep=.25in + +\usepackage{babel} +\makeatother +\begin{document} + +\title{Arev Sans for \TeX{} and \LaTeX{}} + + +\author{Stephen G.\ Hartke% +\footnote{\emph{email}: lastname at gmail dot com.% +}} + + +\date{August 2, 2005} + +\maketitle + +\section{Introduction} + +Bitstream Vera was designed by Jim Lyles of Bitstream, Inc., in cooperation +with the Gnome Foundation as a high quality scalable free font for +use with free open-source software \cite{vera}. The Bitstream Vera +family includes serif, sans serif, and monospaced fonts,% +\footnote{The text of this document is set in Bera Serif and Mono~\cite{bera}, +a repackaging of Bitstream Vera for \TeX{}.% +} and all three fonts have normal, oblique, bold, and bold oblique +faces. Bitstream Vera is primarily intended as a screen font (though +it also works well as a print font) and has hinting for display on +low-resolution devices such as computer monitors and projectors. All +three fonts have large \emph{x} height, wide letters and spacing, +and {}``open'' letters,% +\footnote{For instance, compare the lowercase {}``e'' of Arev Sans with that +of Helvetica.% +} resulting in fonts that are extremely easy to read at small sizes +or on projected displays. + +Tavmjong Bah created Arev Sans% +\footnote{Per the license for Bitstream Vera, any derivative fonts must have +a different name.% +} by extending Bitstream Vera Sans to include Greek, Cyrillic, and +many mathematical symbols \cite{arev}. The new glyphs added by Bah +accurately capture the feel of the Latin letters and so seamlessly +integrate into the font. Bah's intention was to add symbols that are +useful for technical writing, and hence the Greek letters are typical +of those used in mathematics and science and not of the letters used +in writing the Greek language.% +\footnote{Specifically, alpha is not the same as lowercase {}``a,'' nu is +not the same as lowercase {}``v,'' and Upsilon is not the same as +uppercase {}``Y.''% +} At the author's request, Bah also added several alternate glyphs +for some of the Latin and Greek letters. This was mainly done so that +all of the letters can be clearly distinguished when in mathematics +and not surrounded by other letters or even aligned with the baseline.% +\footnote{The lowercase {}``l'' and the uppercase {}``I'' in particular +are almost identical in Bitstream Vera Sans. The lowercase phi and +original uppercase Phi in Arev Sans are also difficult to distinguish +without a baseline.% +} Additionally, several alternate glyphs were added that are {}``warmer'' +or more {}``humanist'' than the strict {}``geometric'' glyphs.% +\footnote{The extra glyphs include {}``a,'' {}``i,'' {}``l,'' {}``u,'' +{}``v,'' {}``w,'' {}``x,'' and uppercase Pi and Phi. The florin +is used as an alternate {}``f.''% +} These extra glyphs add a degree of warmth to mathematics written +in Arev Sans that is not achieved with other sans serif fonts. + +% +\begin{figure*} +\begin{center}\framebox{\includegraphics{fontsample.eps}}\end{center} + + +\caption{\label{cap:fontsample}Font sample of Arev Sans text and math.} +\end{figure*} +Figure~\ref{cap:fontsample} shows a sample of Arev Sans being used +for text and mathematics. The primary use that the author sees for +Arev Sans in \LaTeX{} is for presentations, and especially for those +that are displayed with a computer projector. The attributes of Bitstream +Vera and Arev mentioned above make Arev particularly suited for this +purpose. Besides Arev, there are only a few other options for sans +serif fonts in \LaTeX{}, and none of them are entirely satisfactory. +Computer Modern sans serif and the Sli\TeX{} sans serif% +\footnote{Arev Sans is actually very similar to Sli\TeX{} sans serif (\texttt{lcmss}) +in that both have large \emph{x} height, have wide letters and spacing, +and have {}``open'' letters. Arev Sans is heavier than Sli\TeX{} +sans serif though, which makes it more suitable for computer projectors.% +} fonts can be used for text, but Computer Modern roman is still used +for mathematics. Walter Schmidt's Computer Modern Bright% +\footnote{Harald Halders created Type 1 Postcript font versions of the \texttt{cmbright} +fonts called \texttt{hfbright}. The fonts were created by tracing +high resolution bitmaps, and so are not perfect. However, scalable +Type 1 fonts greatly improve the quality of Postscript and \texttt{.pdf} +files on computer screens and projectors.% +} (\texttt{cmbright}\cite{cmbright}) is a sans serif family that includes +both text and mathematics, but is very thin and does not display well +on a computer projector. Kerkis Sans\cite{kerkis} is based on Avant +Garde and includes Greek sans serif glyphs, but is also very thin. +Helvetica and other PostScript sans serif fonts can be used for text +and for Latin letters in mathematics, but they do not have matching +Greek letters or the proper weight for geometric mathematical symbols. + +The \texttt{arev} package works well with the \LaTeX{} package \texttt{beamer}\cite{beamer} +with the \texttt{professionalfonts} option. % +\begin{figure} +\begin{center}\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.9]{prosper-arev.eps}}\end{center} + + +\vspace*{-1.75em} +\caption{\label{cap:ArevSans}Arev Sans} +\end{figure} +% +\begin{figure} +\begin{center}\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.9]{prosper-lcmss.eps}}\end{center} + + +\vspace*{-1.75em} +\caption{Sli\TeX{} font (\texttt{lcmss})} +\end{figure} +% +\begin{figure} +\begin{center}\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.9]{prosper-cmss.eps}}\end{center} + + +\vspace*{-1.75em} +\caption{Computer Modern sans serif (\texttt{cmss})} +\end{figure} +% +\begin{figure} +\begin{center}\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.9]{prosper-cmbright.eps}}\end{center} + + +\vspace*{-1.75em} +\caption{CM Bright} +\end{figure} +% +\begin{figure} +\begin{center}\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.9]{prosper-kerkis.eps}}\end{center} + + +\vspace*{-1.75em} +\caption{Kerkis Sans} +\end{figure} +% +\begin{figure} +\begin{center}\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.9]{prosper-helvetica.eps}}\end{center} + + +\vspace*{-1.75em} +\caption{\label{cap:Helvetica}Helvetica} +\end{figure} +Figures~\ref{cap:ArevSans}-\ref{cap:Helvetica} show examples of +\texttt{beamer} with the font options mentioned above where each slide +is scaled to 90\% of its default size, and % +\begin{figure} +\begin{center}\begin{tabular}{cc} +\begin{minipage}[c]{0.45\columnwidth}% +\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.5]{prosper-arev.eps}} + + +\vspace*{-0.5em} +\caption{\label{cap:Arev}Arev Sans}\vspace*{\bigskipamount} +\end{minipage}% +& +\begin{minipage}[c]{0.45\columnwidth}% +\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.5]{prosper-helvetica.eps}} + + +\vspace*{-0.5em} +\caption{Helvetica}\vspace*{\bigskipamount} +\end{minipage}% +\tabularnewline +\begin{minipage}[c]{0.45\columnwidth}% +\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.5]{prosper-lcmss.eps}} + + +\vspace*{-0.5em} +\caption{Sli\TeX{} font (\texttt{lcmss})}\vspace*{\bigskipamount} +\end{minipage}% +& +\begin{minipage}[c]{0.45\columnwidth}% +\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.5]{prosper-kerkis.eps}} + + +\vspace*{-0.5em} +\caption{Kerkis Sans}\vspace*{\bigskipamount} +\end{minipage}% +\tabularnewline +\begin{minipage}[c]{0.45\columnwidth}% +\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.5]{prosper-cmss.eps}} + + +\vspace*{-0.5em} +\caption{Computer Modern sans serif (\texttt{cmss})}\vspace*{\bigskipamount} +\end{minipage}% +& +\begin{minipage}[c]{0.45\columnwidth}% +\framebox{\includegraphics[% + scale=0.5]{prosper-cmbright.eps}} + + +\vspace*{-0.5em} +\caption{\label{cap:CM-Bright}CM Bright}\vspace*{\bigskipamount} +\end{minipage}% +\tabularnewline +\end{tabular}\end{center} +\end{figure} +Figures~\ref{cap:Arev}-\ref{cap:CM-Bright} show side-by-side examples +scaled to 50\%. Sli\TeX{} sans serif is loaded into \texttt{beamer} +using \TeX{}Power's \texttt{tpslifonts.sty}~\cite{texpower}. + + +\section{Implementation} + +With internationalization of computer software and the growing use +of Unicode, many free scalable fonts are available that include both +Latin and Greek letters. However, making use of these fonts for mathematics +in \LaTeX{} is a nontrivial task: not only are there many subtleties +to using fonts in \LaTeX{}, but the documentation is scattered among +many sources and there are few examples to consult. The author hopes +that the \texttt{arev} package can serve as a template for others +who wish to create new math font packages for \LaTeX{}. + +The excellent GPLed font editor FontForge~\cite{fontforge} was used +by Bah to create Arev Sans and was used by the author for creating +PostScript \texttt{pfb}, \texttt{afm} , and \TeX{} \texttt{tfm} files. +The Bash shell script \texttt{afmtoglyphlist} was used to extract +the glyph names from the \texttt{afm} file into a list that a \texttt{fontinst} +script used for renaming glyphs. The magic of \texttt{fontinst} was +used to create virtual fonts and font metrics, \LaTeX{} font definition +files, and the \texttt{dvips} map file. + +The vertical placement of math accents requires the accents to be +appropriately placed for characters 1 ex high. The accents also need +to have a zero depth, which is set by the file \texttt{fixot1accents.mtx} +(based on their bounding boxes, the accents naturally have negative +depths). Horizontal placement of math accents is done by centering +the accent over the character, and then adjusting the position by +the kern between the character on the left and a special character +called the \emph{skewchar}. To better visualize the placement of the +accents, the graphical kerning dialog box in FontForge was used, and +then the script \texttt{afmtokernaccent} extracts this kern information +from the \texttt{afm} file and creates \texttt{mtx} files that calculate +the appropriate kern. The one difficulty in implementing this in \texttt{fontinst} +is that the kerning data must be reglyphed before applied to the font +metrics. + +Arev Sans is used for all letter-like symbols, including Latin and +Greek letters. Arev Sans includes many mathematical symbols, but not +the full range of symbols included in Computer Modern or the AMS symbol +fonts. The Math Design Bitstream Charter~\cite{mdch} bold math font +comes very close to the weight of Arev Sans, and so is used for the +majority of geometric symbols% +\footnote{The Math Design Bitstream Charter math fonts have a few minor flaws: +for instance, in the formation of square root symbols and overbraces. +However, most of the symbols are of fine quality, and the range of +symbols is impressive.% +}. Computer Modern is used for the default calligraphic font, Fourier-GUTenberg~\cite{fourier} +for blackboard bold (since the letters are sans serif), Ralph Smith +Formal Script for script, and the AMS font for fraktur. One disadvantage +of using so many different fonts for mathematics is that \TeX{} can +only have sixteen simultaneously loaded fonts, and the Arev package +comes very close to this limit. + +The file \texttt{mathtesty.tex} is a combination of the file \texttt{mathtestx.tex} +from the \texttt{mathptmx} package~\cite{mathptmx} and the \texttt{symbols.tex} +file of David Carlisle. It is very useful for testing all of the math +styles and symbols for a given font setup. + +There are three \LaTeX{} packages for use with Arev Sans: \texttt{arev}, +\texttt{arevtext}, and \texttt{arevmath}. The \texttt{arev} package +simply loads both \texttt{arevtext} and \texttt{arevmath}. \texttt{arevtext} +changes the default text font (both roman and sans serif) to Arev +Sans. \texttt{arevtext} also changes the default typewriter font to +Bera Mono, a repackaging of Bitstream Vera Mono for \TeX{}. \texttt{arevmath} +sets the math fonts as described above. In addition to the normal +styles, the \texttt{\textbackslash{}mathbm} command changes the math +font to bold italic. + +Variant letters defined by \texttt{arevmath}: + +\begin{center}\begin{tabular}{lllllp{0.5in}lllll} +$\origa$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origa}& +& +$\vara$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}vara}& +& +$\origI$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origI}& +& +$\varI$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varI}\tabularnewline +$\origi$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origi}& +& +$\vari$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}vari}& +& +$\origIota$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origIota}& +& +$\varIota$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varIota}\tabularnewline +$\origimath$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origimath}& +& +$\varimath$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varimath}& +& +$\origPi$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origPi}& +& +$\varPi$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varPi}\tabularnewline +$\origf$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origf}& +& +$\varf$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varf}& +& +$\origPhi$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origPhi}& +& +$\varPhi$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varPhi}\tabularnewline +$\origl$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origl}& +& +$\varl$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varl}& +& +& +& +& +& +\tabularnewline +$\origu$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origu}& +& +$\varu$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varu}& +& +& +& +& +& +\tabularnewline +$\origv$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origv}& +& +$\varv$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varv}& +& +& +& +& +& +\tabularnewline +$\origw$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origw}& +& +$\varw$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varw}& +& +& +& +& +& +\tabularnewline +$\origx$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}origx}& +& +$\varx$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varx}& +& +& +& +& +& +\tabularnewline +\end{tabular}\end{center} + +Extra symbols defined by \texttt{arevmath}: + +\begin{center}\begin{tabular}{ll>{\raggedright}p{0.5in}ll} +$\varspade$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varspade}& +& +$\quarternote$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}quarternote}\tabularnewline +$\varheart$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varheart}& +& +$\eighthnote$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}eighthnote}\tabularnewline +$\vardiamond$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}vardiamond}& +& +$\sixteenthnote$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}sixteenthnote}\tabularnewline +$\varclub$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}varclub}& +& +$\steaming$& +\texttt{\textbackslash{}steaming}\tabularnewline +\end{tabular}\end{center} + +All of the variant letters are selected by default except for the +variant {}``f'' (which is a florin symbol). The user can choose +which variants to use by selecting the package option \texttt{origletters}, +and then choosing the variants from the options \texttt{vara}, \texttt{vari}, +\texttt{varf}, \texttt{varl}, \texttt{varu}, \texttt{varv}, \texttt{varw}, +\texttt{varx}, \texttt{varI}, \texttt{varPi}, and \texttt{varPhi}. +Note that there is no \texttt{varimath} option, which follows the +\texttt{vari} selection, or \texttt{varIota} option, since Iota is +treated the same as {}``I.'' For example, if a user selected + +\begin{quote} +\texttt{\textbackslash{}usepackage{[}origletters,vara,varf,varPi{]}\{arevmath\}} +\end{quote} +the following letters would be used: + +\begin{center}\begin{tabular}{lll} +$a\origi\origimath\varf\origl\origu\origv\origw\origx\origI\Pi\origPhi$& +& +\texttt{\$ai\textbackslash{}imath fluvwxI\textbackslash{}Pi\textbackslash{}Phi\$}\tabularnewline +\end{tabular}\end{center} + +A possible future capability of the \texttt{arevmath} package is the +ability to choose either italic or upright Greek letters. This would +require modification of the variant letters code as well. + + +\section{Licenses} + +Bitstream Vera is released under a special license that allows free +distribution. The fonts may also be modified and extended, as long +as the resulting fonts are released under a different name. Arev Sans +is released under the same license as Bitstream Vera. However, Arev's +creator Tavmjong Bah requests that TrueType versions of Arev be obtained +from his website at \cite{arev} instead of being converted from the +Postscript fonts included with the \LaTeX{} package. FontForge source +files may also be obtained at his website. + +The virtual fonts, font definitions, \LaTeX{} packages and other supporting +files of the \texttt{arev} package are released under the \LaTeX{} +Project Public License (LPPL), version~1.2. The one exception is +the file \texttt{ams-mdbch.sty}, which was taken from the Math Design +Bitstream Charter package. This file is released under the GNU General +Public License (GPL), version~2. + + +\section{Acknowledgments} + +The author would like to thank Tavmjong Bah for his willingness to +add characters to Arev Sans; George Williams for a prompt response +and patch on the FontForge mailing list; and Lars Hellstr\"om for +help with math accents and \texttt{fontinst} on the \texttt{tex-fonts} +and \texttt{fontinst} mailing lists. + +\begin{thebibliography}{10} +\bibitem{arev}Arev Sans by Tavmjong Bah, \texttt{http://tavmjong.free.fr/FONTS}. +\bibitem{beamer}\LaTeX{} class \texttt{beamer} by Till Tantau, \texttt{http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net}. +\bibitem{bera}Bera Postscript Type 1 fonts by Malte Rosenau (converted from Bitstream +Vera fonts, which necessitated the name change) and \LaTeX{} support +files by Walter Schmidt, CTAN:\texttt{/fonts/bera}. +\bibitem{vera}Bitstream Vera by Jim Lyles of Bitstream, Inc., released in cooperation +with the Gnome Foundation, \texttt{http://www.gnome.org/fonts}. +\bibitem{cmbright}Computer Modern Bright fonts and \texttt{cmbright} \LaTeX{} package +by Walter Schmidt, CTAN:\texttt{/fonts/cmbright}. +\bibitem{fontforge}FontForge font editor by George Williams, \texttt{http://fontforge.sourceforge.net}. +\bibitem{fontinst}\texttt{fontinst} \TeX{} font installation utility by Alan Jeffrey, +Sebastian Rahtz, Ulrik Vieth, Lars Hellstr\"om, and Rowland McDonnell, +CTAN:\texttt{/fonts/utilities/fontinst}. +\bibitem{fourier}Fourier-GUTenberg fonts and \LaTeX{} package by Michel Bovani, CTAN:\texttt{/fonts/fourier-GUT}. +\bibitem{kerkis}Kerkis font by Antonis Tsolomitis, CTAN:\texttt{/fonts/greek/kerkis}. +\bibitem{mdch}Math Design fonts for Bitstream Charter by Paul Pichaureau, CTAN:\texttt{/fonts/mathdesign}. +\bibitem{mathptmx}\texttt{mathptmx} by Walter Schmidt, part of the \texttt{psnfss} package, +CTAN:\texttt{/fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source}. +\bibitem{rsfs}Ralph Smith Formal Script (\texttt{rsfs}) font by Ralph Smith, Postscript +Type 1 version by Taco Hoekwater, CTAN:\texttt{/fonts/rsfs}. +\bibitem{texpower}\TeX{}Power \LaTeX{} style files by Stephan Lehmke, \texttt{http://texpower.sourceforge.net}.\end{thebibliography} + +\end{document} |