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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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More than one width of a glyph in LaTeX or LuaLatex
I don't know where I can ask about it.
I have font with 2 or 3 versions of letter 'a'.
How I can put this information to LuaLaTeX, LaTeX etc.?
When the paragraph are breaking/making LaTeX made ...
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Strange ampersand shape in italics
I'm trying to use the & symbol in the bib file. The following is my code:
booktitle = {Design, Automation {\&} Test in Europe Conference {\&} Exhibition},
The output is :
Is this ...
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How to make the math font slightly thicker?
I'd like to use TeX Gyre Schola as my text font and the default LaTeX font for the math mode. (Side question: is the default font Latin Modern in math mode or another font?)
MWE:
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Are the TeX Gyre fonts designed to match each other?
I'm currently testing out some fonts and found out that some fonts are designed to match each other (good serif+sans-serif+typewriter combinations).
Are the TeX Gyre fonts, which provide at leats one ...
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(Why) did the Gyre project fork the URW fonts rather than just extending them?
As I understand it:
During the 1980s, the URW++ foundry created clones of the PostScript Core Font Set and gave those clones the following names:
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Bembo, Bembo Book or Garamond Premier Pro? And how to exploit all their features with LuaLaTex?
I am allowed to use one of these fonts (or the three of them if I want) to edit a document.
Here is the list of the Bembo fonts I have :
Bembo-Bold.otf Bembo-ExtraBoldOsF.otf
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Where should I use \textsc? [closed]
When should I use macro \textsc ? What is common practice in document like diploma thesis? Should I use it for names of persons, names of described entities of particular interest or in some other ...
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How to get upright parentheses in the whole document?
My question is, basically, the same as the one in Upright parentheses in italic text: how do I force all parentheses in my document to be upright, without replacing them with some commands "by hand"?
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Which typewriter font fits to Linux Libertine and supports bold letters?
I'm thinking about using the Linux Libertine font (\usepackage{libertine}) in my next TeX documents. For listings with syntax highlighting I will need a typewriter font that supports boldface.
I ...
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Width threshold for space detection
I'm writing this stuff pdf2htmlEX, for each distance between two consecutive letters, I need to check if there should be a space character or not. Especially for PDF files generated by LaTeX, which ...
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kpfonts and Computer modern
there are typographical contraindications to use kpfonts for the text and standard Computer modern for the Math mode?
\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
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Style question: serif or sans fonts in figure and chart text?
Question for you design-y types:
I like to use a serif font for all my text (title, headings, body). What I'd like to know is whether you think that I should go with a serif or sans serif for text in ...
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Different small-caps in mathpazo and tgpagella - which are better?
Both the packages tgpagella and mathpazo (with "sc"-option) provide the font Palladio with true small-caps. tgpagella additionally offers a bold small-cap font. Yet when comparing the normal ...
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Alternate Q in Garamond Premier Pro with XeLaTeX
My question is closely related to Glyph substitution: alternate capital Q in URW-Garamond? (LaTeX, Mac OS X) but I am using XeLateX. It looks like there is a hidden mechanism that I do not understand. ...
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Garamond and URL links
I am experimenting the use of the Garamond Premier Pro font for a dissertation and I still would like to keep the URL information in the bibliography when available. Obviously, there's a font problem ...
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Slightly Alter a symbol position
I am using a symbol and it looks too low vertically. I would like to slightly shift it up. Can I do this easily? I would like to do this "permanently" since it is probably more efficient than shifting ...
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Use text font or math font for subscripts, diff operator etc.?
I have a typographical question concerning the use of text in math mode, for example for subscripts or the diff operator. Consider the following example, where I use XeLaTeX with Palatino as main font ...
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Ligatures: why “fi”, but not “fj” as well?
My university name is "FJFI", with e-mail/web addresses containing lowercase "fjfi". Then "fi" gets ligatured whereas "fj" does not, and the result looks a bit strange. My question is, which ...
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Should I distinguish text that names a concept and text that is to be emphasized, on font?
In scientific writing, we often need to mention a term and emphasize a point. So far, I always try to distinguish these two typical cases on font, by using different series or styles, say, use slanted ...
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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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The effect of the anonymous letter
I'm trying to create an effect as if the text is made up of letters cut from magazines and newspapers and even the same words had different style. It is necessary that each letter in the word had a ...
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Why exactly is \linespread{1.05} appropriate for Palatino?
Section 1.4 of l2tabu, Changing inter-line space using \baselinestretch, contains a remark about the Palatino font:
[I]f you only want to use fonts other than Computer Modern you may use ...
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Are there typographical systems that allow creating text which isn't always uniform?
I was reading another question on this site, and this was a sample of a cursive font from that discussion:
I really like it, but immediately noticed that it could not have been written by a human, ...
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How do I make my document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman?
I want to type up some spells from the RPG Call of Cthulhu and give them to my players. I could just type them up in Word or LaTeX, but that seems too...neat. I'd like to make these things look like ...
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Combining Typefaces [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Choosing font for bold small caps (or any other particular family+series+shape combination)
I am using Aldus obtained from Adobe and installed using this method (after ...
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Minion Pro and Monospace Font
This is more a typography question than a TeX one, but can anyone recommend me a good monospaced font that blends well with Minion Pro?
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grabbing a single Greek glyph from an alternative font in math mode?
I have a physics textbook that is used by students who typically have no previous familiarity with the Greek alphabet. In the Computer Modern math font, lowercase gamma is highly stylized. The loop at ...
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minionpro: v and \nu in math mode
I have noticed that with Minion Pro font v and \nu are indistinguishable.
Does anyone know a decent workaround to this?
Somewhere in the web it was suggested to use \upsilon as a substitute for v.
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Text fonts other than Cambria to match Cambria Math
This may be a little bit off-topic. However I think it's still TeX related.
Recently I decided to move my personal style (a class file) to be unicode-math and fontspec based, so I can freely use some ...
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Font and typesetting of EGA by Numdam
I very much like the typesetting in Numdam's writeup of Éléments de géométrie algébrique. I find the font particularily pleasing, and the headers are nice as well. I've heard this is how it looked in ...
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Which font should be used for diagrams/graphs/flow charts?
I'm using the standard serif fonts in KOMA script for typesetting my thesis, 11pt for normal text.
What font and font size would be recommended for use in graphs, diagrams and flow charts?
The same ...
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Upright parentheses in italic text
This question led to a new package:
embrac
Bringhurst, in Elements of Typographic Style, recommends to use upright parentheses in italic text (i.e., write 'a (simple) example' as opposed to 'a ...
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What best combination of fonts for Serif, Sans, and Mono do you recommend?
Now that Xe(La)TeX is being increasingly used to deliver nifty documents, I am wondering if any recommendations have been published or discussed about the best combination of font families for mixing ...
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When to use serif and when to use sans serif font family
This is not a technical question. However as the FAQs say this place is about
people who love to create well-structured and beautifully typeset documents
I take my shot.
I am often confused ...
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When to use bold, italics, small caps, typewriter etc.?
I'm a little confused on the purposes of each kind of text in LaTeX. I know the function of some of them, but sometimes people use each for different reasons. For example:
\texttt is for code (no ...
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Source of “correct” baselinestretch values for various fonts?
I once encountered the advice to use \renewcommand\baselinestretch{1.025} after \usepackage{bera} (though I am not 100% certain that 1.025 was the suggested value). There's little doubt to my ...
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LaTeX challenge: how to reproduce this layout and typography
I would like to create a document in latex (whatever \documentclass) to reproduce the layout below and its typography style. I'd like to know if there is any open font at FontSquirrel or anywhere ...
