Fine tuning the ccfonts package

Question

A little background the package ccfonts does not have any bold characters hence when you use it it loads the computer modern bold. Now there is an option for this package: "boldsans" when it uses a condensed sans-serif version of computer modern for bold. Now here is what I am after: I want cmbright bold to be used instead. How can I make that happen?

EDIT: I want the bold used in math mode to be cmbright as well!

EDIT-2: Nobody? :(

Answer 1

This is hard to answer without seeing some examples of your usage.

Here's a guess, though I think it would be at best a kludge. Put this after loading ccfonts.

\renewcommand{\bfseries}{\fontfamily{cmbr}\fontseries{bx}\selectfont}
\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathbf} {OT1}{cmbr}{bx}{n}
\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathbold}{OML}{cmbrm}{b}{it}

I think there may be better ways, and I'm not really confident this is going to work out well, but without seeing a sample of how you're using bold in your document, it's hard to tell.

Answer 2

I didn't like the cmbr fonts so I made myself a boldface using tikz:

  \def\dikte{0.2}

    \newcommand{\dik}[1]{\hspace{-1.5pt}\mbox{\!\tikz[baseline=(X.base),text depth=-0cm,text height=0cm,-]{\draw[use as bounding box](0,0)node(X)[,-]{\normalsize#1};
    \foreach\x in{0,45,90,135,180,225,270,315}{
    \draw(0,0)++(\x:\dikte pt)node[,-]{\normalsize#1};}}\!}}

not the most elegant way I recon, but it sure does work. I adapted my section, chapter, mathbf, caption, etc commands to use this \dik font

If you want I'll post the Tex file that contains these adaptions