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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bold-extras.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bold-extras.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..cd52419820d --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-bold-extras.html @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +<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 "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 +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 +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-wherefiles.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 +<a href="FAQ-instpackages.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 +<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 +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>. +Of course, commercial fixed-width fonts (even the default +<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 +compunctions about providing them in a bold form. +<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>) +</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> |