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Golden ratio typography in TeX
Chris Pearson makes a number of claims in his article Secret Symphony: The Ultimate Guide to Readable Web Typography, which I find fascinating, and I would like to know: are the formulas he proposes ...
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Scaling cmtt to match times
I want to use Times Roman (times) as the default font and Computer Modern Typewriter (cmtt) for monospaced text. However, Computer Modern is a little too large. How do I scale it down document-wide?
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Getting a larger font (NOT \fontsize)?
I am trying to get some playing cards made with the help of the allrunes package.
However, the package "only" comes with fonts up to 35pt installed. If I set \fontsize to something larger, pdflatex ...
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Retrieve the current font, scale it, and change the font to that version
I'm using Plain TeX (and eplain, if that matters). I would like to be able to generically scale the current font, no matter how the current font has been set. For example, I want to write a macro
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Matlab to pdflatex with text properties
I know that this might be more a detail rather than a serious problem but I've already Googled it like crazy and I can't find the solution.
Is it possible to achieve a MATLAB plot in pdflatex with ...
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How to fake mid-caps with LaTeX? (I.e. How to stretch characters of a font?)
Background
As discussed in this question, one would often like to use small caps for abbreviations, however, mixed case acronyms such as OpenMP look rather odd (see example 2 below):
The problem ...
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Scaling fonts document-wide
I'm looking to use lcmtt mentioned here as my default typewriter font, but the scaling is way out of proportion with the rest of the text. I've used the following commands to enable the font:
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Force linear scaling of subscripts and superscripts
Perhaps I am being very picky but this font that I am using uses designed fonts for subscripts and superscripts when I want it to use scaled fonts. Their designed subscript and superscript fonts are ...
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Making text narrow
I'm using \textlsfrom the microtype package to increase space between letters, but I can't find a command that will make a text look narrow (or maybe a very narrow serif font?).
What is the best way ...
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how to scale math font only
I am trying to mimic our institute's PPt-template for presentation foils using the beamer-class. The corporate quidelines prescribe the use of Helvetica as the main font. However, package helvet does ...
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How to enlarge “fourier” font to match “utopia” package
I'd love to exchange the "obsolete" utopia package against the fourier package for a couple of reasons. Unfortunately, the Utopia font in the fourier package renders much smaller compared to the ...
