Linked Questions
47 questions linked to/from Latin Modern vs cm-super?
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German character not rendered to pdf
I just started using LaTeX, and need to use the character "ü". I already have this in main file :
%%% Sprach- und zeichensatzspezifische Pakete
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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What is the difference between Latin Modern and Linux Libertine?
There is good discussion of what is the difference between Latin Modern and cm-super?
Can someone summarise what is the differences and similarities between Latin Modern, Linux Libertine and Computer ...
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Font encoding in LaTeX
I've been using LaTeX for a while and I've read a lot of discussion about fonts encodings.
Some suggest to use T1 fonts adding \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, other suggest to add nothing, other suggest to ...
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Anti aliasing from latex to pdf
When rendered the text in my pdf is not anti alised. Anyone knows how to do this?
The following example shows my text output compared with output from google docs pdf
Is it even possible with ...
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Comparison of vector fonts of "Computer Modern" variants
I'm looking for a detailed comparison of the various alternatives of "Computer Modern"-like vector fonts. I'm currently using Latin Modern with pdftex, but am weighing whether it's worth ...
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Typesetting latin small letter u with diaeresis and caron
I'm looking for ways to typeset an ǚ.
This character is necessary for typesetting pinyin (汉语拼音, the most common way of transcribing Mandarin Chinese), as it contains syllables such as lǚ (Chinese 铝/鋁;...
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Can't copy-paste from my PDF. Any idea why?
When using copy paste from the PDF generated from my Latex document, the text comes out garbled. What could be causing this?
This is an example of the original text:
At last, and taking the risk a ...
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conflicting options errors
I have in the preamble:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amssymb,amstext,amsmath,latexsym,mathtools}
\usepackage[italian,british]{babel}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage[utf8,latin1]{inputenc}
\...
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fontenc changes sans serif bold font in KOMA-script
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\textbf{\textsf{Some text}}
\end{document}
The output of the above code is
and doesn't change if ...
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Header not displaying correctly on chapter page due to subsection
(Complete source code below.)
(Note: Not sure if I am using LaTeX or just TeX. I am editing with TeXworks, as TeXStudio was not rendering what I typed without +20 seconds of lag.)
I apologize if ...
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Fine tuning diacritical marks in fonts
I am about to make the paradigm-shift from the traditional way of hard-coding fonts with diacritical marks on top of them to simply using utf8. What surprised me, however, that the rendering of the ...
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Darker fonts for TeX output to PDF
Sources for darker fonts for math fonts and AMS math symbols for PDF output via, say, dvipdfm.exe?
(1st response -- copied from by moderator)
Many thanks for the help.
I'm just using TeX and not ...
user4112
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Ugly alignment (size of square root symbol) with Latin Modern at 12pt
Consider the code
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\[ \sqrt{\frac{m}{n}} \]
\end{document}
The output is a ...
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Using \fontseries{b}\selectfont does not give me a bold face
I am trying to emulate the font below:
Apparently it can be done with:
\renewcommand*{\firstnamefont}{\fontsize{34}{36}\sffamily\mdseries\upshape}
This is from the moderncv package, more ...
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The text in pdf is not smooth [duplicate]
I am using TeXstudio to edit Latex and create pdf files. The text is not smooth in the pdf files created by TeXstudio in my computer. When I zoom in, it will be
But if I use my friend's computer to ...
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