I found nice fonts for my thesis.
Chris Dams
I just succeeded in finding a nice font combination for my PhD-thesis.
Since I suspect I am not the only one facing this challenge, I will
share my solution with you. After trying out many fonts, I decided that
the combination of Charter for the text with txfonts for the math is
very nice if one enlarges the txfonts a bit. What I did was copying the
package txfonts to my home directory, renaming it into myfonts.sty,
commenting out everything that referred to textfonts, added
\RequirePackage{charter} instead and also added the following commands
to myfonts.sty
\DeclareMathSizes{5}{5.34}{5.34}{5.34}
\DeclareMathSizes{6}{6.41}{5.34}{5.34}
\DeclareMathSizes{7}{7.476}{5.34}{5.34}
\DeclareMathSizes{8}{8.54}{6.41}{5.34}
\DeclareMathSizes{9}{9.61}{6.41}{5.34}
\DeclareMathSizes{10}{10.68}{7.476}{5.34}
\DeclareMathSizes{11}{11.75}{8.54}{6.41}
\DeclareMathSizes{12}{12.816}{8.54}{6.41}
\DeclareMathSizes{14}{14.95}{10.68}{7.476}
\DeclareMathSizes{17}{18.156}{12.816}{10.68}
\DeclareMathSizes{20}{21.36}{14.95}{12.816}
\DeclareMathSizes{25}{26.7}{21.36}{18.156}
Inspiration for the numbers came from the file fontmath.ltx. This
declares the standard math sizes. To find out by how much to enlarge
the txfonts I made the file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{charter}
\begin{document}
\tracingonline 2
\showboxdepth\maxdimen
\setbox0\hbox{x}
\showbox0
\end{document}
This gives the height of an x with the charter fonts and using the same
file with charter -> txfonts one finds the height of an x in the
txfonts. The ratio between those two was used to multiply the numbers
found in fontmath.ltx. In every \DeclareMathSizes the last three
numbers are to be multiplied with this ratio because the first number
is the text size with which the declared math sizes are supposed to go
together with.
Best,
Chris
Robin Fairbairns
>I just succeeded in finding a nice font combination for my PhD-thesis.
>Since I suspect I am not the only one facing this challenge, I will
>share my solution with you. After trying out many fonts, I decided that
>the combination of Charter for the text with txfonts for the math is
i'm somewhat bemused that the txfonts should be thought to look better
than the mathdesign-charter set which were desinged to fit with
charter. can you say what put you off the newer fonts?
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Chris Dams
> i'm somewhat bemused that the txfonts should be thought to look better
> than the mathdesign-charter set which were desinged to fit with
> charter. can you say what put you off the newer fonts?
I tried to find fonts that are not the ones that everybody is using all
the time but they should also be rather quiet. The first time I tried
Charter I immediately liked it. It is not very standard and still does
not draw all the attention to the font. The mathdesign-charter set does
strike me as being too obtrusive. Look for instance at the "y" in
mathdesign-charter. The strange diverging lines at the top of the "y"
make it draw quite lot of attention and IMO it does not fit very well
with the text-"y" from Charter. The "y" from the txfonts looks
beautiful. I also find the "p" and "q" from mathdesign-charter ugly.
The ones from the txfonts look much nicer. The \mathcal letters from
the txfonts look nicer. \mathcal{M} of mathdesign seems to have too
much lines fitted in too little a space. \mathcal{M} from txtonts look
so good! Furthermore the parentheses from the txfonts look nicer,
although I have to admit that the ones from mathdesign-charter fit
better with the text-partentheses. Actually, I would say that the
parentheses are a disadvantage of Charter. Maybe I will try to
substitute them by something else. Then again, I do not have that many
text-parentheses while I do have lots of math-parentheses.
Best,
Chris
Robin Fairbairns
gosh. i've not really tried the fonts seriously, but i'd not noticed
any of those points. thanks for responding.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Michael Zedler
Michael Zedler
> What do you think about http://www.hft.ei.tum.de/mz/charterluc.pdf?
Addendum: The file name suggest it, this is Charter mixed with Lucida. A
custom OML encoding is used which substitutes Lucida's latin letters
with those of Charter. I don't like Charter's italic 'z' much, perhaps
it's worth a thought of using Lucida's italic 'z' instead. Bad idea?
Michael
PS: The side bearings and accent positions aren't perfect yet, I know... ;-)
Malte Rosenau
>> i'm somewhat bemused that the txfonts should be thought to look better
>> than the mathdesign-charter set which were desinged to fit with
>> charter. can you say what put you off the newer fonts?
>
> I tried to find fonts that are not the ones that everybody is using all
> the time but they should also be rather quiet. The first time I tried
> Charter I immediately liked it. It is not very standard and still does
> not draw all the attention to the font. The mathdesign-charter set does
> strike me as being too obtrusive. Look for instance at the "y" in
> mathdesign-charter. The strange diverging lines at the top of the "y"
> make it draw quite lot of attention and IMO it does not fit very well
> with the text-"y" from Charter. The "y" from the txfonts looks
> beautiful. I also find the "p" and "q" from mathdesign-charter ugly.
I think the "y" from mathdesign IS the text-"y" from
Charter. That's what the italic font looks like.