Text Formatting ⇒ adobe font families

[jimbo]

Hello all,

I am using the package quotchap, and would like to add more font options. I believe that this is possible by using the font family identifier, such as...

\DeclareOption{times}{\@newfontcmd{\@defaultcnfont}{ptm}}

...would add the adobe times font family 'ptm' to the list of quotchap options called using the word 'times'...

\RequirePackage[times]{quotchap}

Fonts such as the defalt sans serif (computer modern sans serif) with font family name 'cmss' which I believe are not postscript fonts do not seem to work, as they pixellate horribly when made large.

I would like to know which font families are able to be displayed very large without problems - or more simply, is there a new implimentation (adobe?) of cmss which would work in this case? Helvetica is close (font family phv) but the difference between this and the standard latex sans serif is obvious when expanded using quotchap.

Sorry for the long post

Regards

Jimbo

[frabjous]

Sounds like you're still getting Type-3 versions of the Computer Modern family fonts. That's worrisome. Most even semi-recent incarnations of LaTeX should default to Type-1 versions. Some things to try (in order):

1) Use the fontenc package to specify that you want Type-1 fonts.

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

2) Install the cm-super package if you haven't already.

3) Try the lmodern package, which provides the Latin Modern family. (Almost complete clones of the Computer Modern family but more to update...) Use it with Type-1 encoding:

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

4) Install a newer LaTeX distribution (e.g., TeXlive 2010 or MikTeX 2.9). Obviously, this is a last resort unless you want to do this anyway. (You didn't mention what distribution you were using and how old it was.)

[jimbo]

Thank you for the reply.

I made the changes you suggested, and from the lmodern package found the lmodern sans serif family 'lmss' which is implemented in quotchap using...

\DeclareOption{sansserif}{\@newfontcmd{\@defaultcnfont}{lmss}}

...which works.

I am using Texlive 9.0 as is on the department server. I cannot update to a more modern version (I think this is 2003) but it seems that using 'lmss' works even without...

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

...in the preamble. Long post short, this is resolved - thank you. For others with this issue, it seems quotchap (and presumably any other instance where very large text is required) requires the modern font families and that 'computer modern' is not one of them

Regards

Jimbo

[localghost]

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Thorsten

[jimbo]

Done