Easy font substitution ********************** :Copyright: © 2010 Günter Milde :Contributor: Special thanks to Ulrike Fischer who provided the indirect definition with active ``\nfss@catcodes``. :Licence: This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the `LaTeX Project Public License`_, either version 1.3 of this license or any later version. :Abstract: Provide the ``\substitutefont`` macro for defining substitute fonts for specified font encodings. :Identification: :: \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \ProvidesPackage{substitutefont} [2012/07/07 v0.1.3 combine font families] Changelog: .. class:: borderless ============ ===== ================================================= 2010-11-04 0.1 initial version 2012-04-30 0.1.1 documentation update, upload to CTAN 2012-07-05 0.1.2 documentation/example update 2012-07-07 0.1.3 bugfix (comment usage example) ============ ===== ================================================= Usage ===== The macro ``\substitutefont{}{}{}`` selects the font as replacement for if the font encoding is in the variants "normal", "italic", "slanted", and "small-caps" and the shapes "medium", "bold", and "bold-extended". Example: Palatino with the standard package `mathpazo` for Latin and `GFS Didot`_ for Greek: .. code:: latex \usepackage[sc,slantedGreek]{mathpazo} \substitutefont{LGR}{pplx}{udidot} Implementation ============== :: \begingroup \nfss@catcodes \newcommand*{\substitutefont}[3]{% \DeclareFontFamily{#1}{#2}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{m}{n}{<->ssub * #3/m/n}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{m}{it}{<->ssub * #3/m/it}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{m}{sl}{<->ssub * #3/m/sl}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{m}{sc}{<->ssub * #3/m/sc}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{b}{n}{<->ssub * #3/b/n}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{b}{it}{<->ssub * #3/b/it}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{b}{sl}{<->ssub * #3/b/sl}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{b}{sc}{<->ssub * #3/b/sc}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{bx}{n}{<->ssub * #3/bx/n}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{bx}{it}{<->ssub * #3/bx/it}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{bx}{sl}{<->ssub * #3/bx/sl}{} \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{bx}{sc}{<->ssub * #3/bx/sc}{} } \global\let\substitutefont\substitutefont \endgroup .. _LaTeX Project Public License: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt .. _GFS Didot: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/gfsdidot.html