Embedding Bold Small Caps [duplicate]

Question

I am required to embed fonts in my document, in order to ensure the printing of my thesis goes well. The recommendation is to include \usepackage{lmodern}. Unfortunately, my document uses bold small caps, which renders as bold lower case when I use lmodern.

(The thesis should look similar to the default template. Thus I can not use a completely different font)

(I currently use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, although I do not know if that is relevant)

How can I embed bold small caps?

MWE (removing \usepackage{lmodern} causes desired output):

\documentclass[pdftex,10pt,b5paper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[lmargin=25mm,rmargin=25mm,tmargin=27mm,bmargin=30mm]{geometry}

\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newacronym{sqp}{\textsc{sqp}}{sequential quadratic programming}
\newacronym{doe}{\textsc{d}o\textsc{e}}{design of experiments}

\begin{document}
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype, title=Acronyms ]

\section{Demo}
In text ok: \acrshort{doe} and \acrshort{sqp}
\end{document}

Edit: I included lmodern to ensure embedded fonts. This broke bold small caps. When I removed lmodern, and checked if the fonts are embedded, this was the case. Thus I do not need the package, and I think my problem is solved.

Answer 1

The glossary in your example does not have bold small capitals but only small capitals. lmodern does not provide bold small capitals. So if you need to use bold small capitals you have to use a font, that provides them, e.g., Linux Libertine:

\documentclass[pdftex,10pt,b5paper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[lmargin=25mm,rmargin=25mm,tmargin=27mm,bmargin=30mm]{geometry}

\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newacronym{sqp}{\textsc{sqp}}{sequential quadratic programming}
\newacronym{doe}{\textsc{d}o\textsc{e}}{design of experiments}

\begin{document}
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype, title=Acronyms ]

\section{Demo}
In text ok: \acrshort{doe} and \acrshort{sqp}
\end{document}

This is independent from how to embed fonts. But the default installations of TeX Live or MiKTeX will embed these fonts. You can check whether or not the fonts are embedded either using pdffonts or the font information dialog of a PDF viewer.

As an alternative you can use European Computer Modern (EC). It does also provide bold small caps:

\documentclass[b5paper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[lmargin=25mm,rmargin=25mm,tmargin=27mm,bmargin=30mm]{geometry}

\usepackage[]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
\newacronym{sqp}{\textsc{sqp}}{sequential quadratic programming}
\newacronym{doe}{\textsc{d}o\textsc{e}}{design of experiments}

\begin{document}
\printglossary[type=\acronymtype, title=Acronyms ]

\section{Demo}
In text ok: \acrshort{doe} and \acrshort{sqp}
\end{document}

But in this case you have to install cm-super (if not already installed) to embed Type1 fonts into your document. If you are using Vanilla TeX Live the default installation does already have installed cm-super. If you are using the TeX Live of a Linux distribution you often have to install them (e.g., using sudo apt-get install cm-super if you are using debian linux) and if you are using MiKTeX you can install cm-super using the package manager.