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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bold-extras.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bold-extras.html index 032644c53a1..ecdb5ec7b6c 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bold-extras.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bold-extras.html @@ -2,35 +2,35 @@ <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 “teletype” -or small-caps fonts. There’s a practical reason for this (Knuth never +<p/>LaTeX, as delivered, offers no means of handling bold “teletype” +or small-caps fonts. There’s a practical reason for this (Knuth never designed such fonts), but there are typographical considerations too -(the “medium weight” <code>cmtt</code> font is already pretty bold (by +(the “medium weight” <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’s a set of “extra” Metafont files on CTAN that provide bold +<p/>There’s a set of “extra” 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 “<em>public</em>” supplier -would be an appropriate place). Once you’ve +(these are (La)TeX-specific files, so the “<em>public</em>” supplier +would be an appropriate place). Once you’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’s a jiffy package +need when you first make reference to them. There’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’t proceed with Knuth-style +<p/>If you need to use Type 1 fonts, you can’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’s +<i>Courier</i>) almost always come with a bold variant, so that’s not a problem. Furthermore <a href="FAQ-usepsfont.html">PSNFSS</a> -will usually provide “faked” small caps fonts, and has no +will usually provide “faked” 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 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ 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="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/bold-extra.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/bold-extra.sty</a> +<dt><tt><i>bold-extra.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bold-extra.zip">macros/latex/contrib/bold-extra</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bold-extra/">browse the directory</a>) <dt><tt><i>bold tt and small caps fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold.zip">fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold/">browse the directory</a>) <dt><tt><i>LuxiMono fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/LuxiMono.zip">fonts/LuxiMono</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/LuxiMono/">browse the directory</a>) </dl> |