============================================================ Using the Bera fonts with LaTeX ============================================================ 2004-09-07 Walter Schmidt w.a.schmidt@gmx.net "Bera" is a set of three PostScript Type1 font families: Bera Serif (a slab-serif Roman), Bera Sans (a "Frutiger descendant") and Bera Mono (monospaced/typewriter). USING SINGLE FONT FAMILIES Several macro packages are provided to use these font families with LaTeX: package: effect: ------------------------------------------------------------ beraserif selects Bera Serif as the default roman family berasans selects Bera Sans as the default sansserif family beramono selects Bera Mono as the default typewriter family You need not necessarily use all three font families together (even though this is supported, see below). Bera Sans blends well with many roman typefaces, as long as their x-height is not too low. Bera Mono is a versatile "all-purpose" monospaced typeface, whose advantage over CM-Typewriter is the availability of a bold font series. Notice that the Bera fonts are supported with T1 (european) and TS1 (textcompanion) encoding only, so you should issue the commands \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{textcomp} in the document preamble. The obsolete OT1 encoding, which is still the default with LaTeX, is _not_ supported. The Bera fonts are much larger than many others, when used at the same nominal size. This can be fixed by loading the above package so with the option [scaled=...]. For instance, \usepackage[scaled=0.95]{berasans} loads the Bera Sans fonts, scaled down to 95% of their "natural" size. Omitting the factor, i.e., \usepackage[scaled]{...} selects a default scaling of 90%, which makes the Bera fonts approximately match the size of the Computer Modern fonts. USING THE BERA FONT FAMILIES TOGETHER To make the use of the three Bera fonts families together most easy, a further macro package bera.sty is provided: \usepackage{bera} effects all of the following: * T1 and textcompanion encoding is selected * Bera Roman, Sans and Mono at 90% are loaded as the three main text font families (while the math fonts remain unchanged!) * the line spacing is enlarged by 5%, i.e., \linespread{1.05}, with respect to the large x-height of the Bera typefaces; * the definitions of the TeX and LaTeX logos \TeX and \LaTeX are changed so as to suit BeraSerif. Even though there are no math fonts that were designed particularly to go with Bera Serif, math typesetting is possible. It is recommended to use the the math fonts of Y&Y's Lucida font set , which blend surprisingly well with Bera. Notice that the Lucida math fonts are to be scaled correspondingly: \usepackage{bera} \usepackage[expert]{lucbmath} \def\DeclareLucidaFontShape#1#2#3#4#5#6{% \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{<->s*[0.90]#5}{#6}} NFSS CLASSIFICATION encodings family series shape(s) Postscript font name --------------------------------------------------------- T1, TS1 fve m n, sl(*) BeraSerif-Roman T1, TS1 fve b n, sl(*) BeraSerif-Bold T1, TS1 fvs m n, sl BeraSans-Roman BeraSans-Oblique T1, TS1 fvs b n, sl BeraSans-Bold BeraSans-BoldOblique T1, TS1 fvm m n, sl BeraSansMono-Roman BeraSansMono-Oblique T1, TS1 fvm b n, sl BeraSansMono-Bold BeraSansMono-BoldOb (*) The slanted series of the Bera Serif fonts are artificially slanted; there are no correspoding real fonts. In the TS1 encoding only the characters of the ISO-Adobe character set plus the Euro (\texteuro) and the Omega (\textomega) are available. == finis