A few years ago, the lmodern
package was a good way to have high quality fonts by simply adding :
\usepackage{lmodern}
Nowadays, lmodern
seems less popular. I'm wondering if it is because LaTeX default fonts received some improvements which make lmodern
useless? Or because the package is abandoned? It hard to see if the package is still developed (a search on CTAN about lmodern
does not return anything) and texdoc lmodern
is not helpful...
So :
- Is it still useful to load the
lmodern
package? - What are the effects/advantages of this package compared to normal (default) CM fonts?
\textasciitilde
produces a high tilde in the default computer modern, but centred in lmodern.lmodern
for me.lmodern
I noticed on the default computer modern is its sans serif font type. You can obvious see the difference of large bold sans serif texts, e.g. chapter titles.lmodern
does not have bold small caps, right? It is the only thing making me not want to use it :(