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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label bold-extras</title>
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<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.
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<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>)
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<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>
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