Font alternatives to Computer Modern

Andrea Vettori

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Jul 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/29/97

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Hi,

I'm searching for some nice fonts to replace Computer Modern fonts in
my thesis.

Any suggestion ?
How can I find some postscript sample files ?

P.S.
I need math fonts too.

Thanks

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Young U. Ryu

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Jul 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/30/97

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Andrea Vettori <vet...@dei.unipd.it> wrote in article
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> Hi,
>
> I'm searching for some nice fonts to replace Computer Modern fonts in
> my thesis.
>
> Any suggestion ?
> How can I find some postscript sample files ?
>
> P.S.
> I need math fonts too.

Mathtime Plus (i.e., Times + Matching Math Fonts) and Lucida Bright.
I believe each of these can completely (?!) replace for CM.

Font samples are in PDF files available from www.yandy.com

By the way, they are commercial products.

Young

Berthold K.P. Horn

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Jul 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/30/97

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gro...@nospam.duke.edu (Paul Gronke) writes:

> Try running PSLATEX.BAT and see how you like it (or include
> \usepackage{pstimes} in your preamble).

> >Andrea Vettori <vet...@dei.unipd.it> wrote in article

> >> I'm searching for some nice fonts to replace Computer Modern fonts in
> >> my thesis.

> >> Any suggestion ?
> >> How can I find some postscript sample files ?

> >> P.S. I need math fonts too.

> >Mathtime Plus (i.e., Times + Matching Math Fonts) and Lucida Bright.
> >I believe each of these can completely (?!) replace for CM.

Presently the choices are:

(1) CM (+AMS maybe)
(2) Lucida Bright + Lucida New Math (+ Lucida Bright Expert maybe)
(3) MathTime + Times-Roman (+ MathPllus maybe)
(4) Adobe Lucida + Adobe Lucida Math (a bit heavy, hard to use)

Downloadable sample Acobrat PDF files may be found on http://www.YandY.com

> Paul Gronke Duke University
> gro...@acpub.duke.edu Dept of Political Science

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Young U. Ryu

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Jul 31, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/31/97

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Paul Gronke <gro...@nospam.duke.edu> wrote in article
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> Try running PSLATEX.BAT and see how you like it (or include
> \usepackage{pstimes} in your preamble).

With pslatex, you get Type 1 text fonts with CM math symbols.
In my _opinion_, such combination of Type 1 fonts (e.g., Times, Century,
Palatino, Garamond, or others) with CM math symbols is not looking very
good.
Those Type 1 fonts are much thicker than CM math symbol fonts ...

Mathptm seems a bit better than pslatex. It uses Type 1 fonts
as much as possible. For instance, for math italic, Type 1 italic fonts
are used. However, still some CM math symbols are used, because
they are available in ordinary Type 1 text fonts and the Symbol font.

Young

Jonas Bofjall

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Jul 31, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/31/97

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Andrea Vettori (vet...@dei.unipd.it) wrote:
> I'm searching for some nice fonts to replace Computer Modern fonts in

If you need math fonts too, then your choice is rather limited. I believe
there are no other complete free fonts than the CM-family distributed with
standard TeX. On CTAN, there are also the Concrete (Beton) fonts, but I have
not tried them and I don't know if they're complete.If you can afford
commercial fonts (of very good quality), then you should take a look at
http://www.yandy.com/ they sell math fonts for Times Roman (called MathTime)
and a whole complete Lucida family. They have samples available on their web
pages.

// Jonas <j...@abc.se> [2:201/262.37]

Murray Eisenberg

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Jul 31, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/31/97

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Andrea Vettori (vet...@dei.unipd.it) wrote:

: I'm searching for some nice fonts to replace Computer Modern fonts in

: my thesis.

: Any suggestion ?
: How can I find some postscript sample files ?

The LucidaBright+Lucida New Math+LucidaBright Expert fonts sold by Y &
Y are a really nice alternative to CM. I did an entire textbook using
them, and the results were very pleasing.

(Originally I was going to use Times together with MathTime, but that
also required some Adobe Mathematica Pi. Moreover, both I and my
editor thought that the pages looked too crowded and hard to read with
the Times font for text.)

Employing the LucidaBright family with LaTeX2e is now quite straightforward.

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James B. Crigler

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Aug 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/1/97

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>>>>> "Andrea" == Andrea Vettori <vet...@dei.unipd.it> writes:

Andrea> Hi, I'm searching for some nice fonts to replace Computer
Andrea> Modern fonts in my thesis.

Andrea> Any suggestion ? How can I find some postscript sample files
Andrea> ?

Andrea> P.S. I need math fonts too.

None of the other responses in this thread has mentioned using
concrete and euler. I know some find them ... undesirable ... but if
you like the look of Graham, Knuth and Patashnik's book
_Concrete_Mathematics_, the result is very nice.

Assuming LaTeX2e, \usepackage{beton} \usepackage{euler} does the
trick. (There are also notes in the documentation about suggestions
for headers and the like. Follow these suggestions for a very nice
look.)

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Dr E. Buxbaum

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Aug 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/4/97

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>Andrea Vettori (vet...@dei.unipd.it) wrote:
>
>: I'm searching for some nice fonts to replace Computer Modern fonts in
>: my thesis.

May be you want to have a look at the ec fonts (the successor of dc) from
ctan. The fonts have been redesigned and follow the Cork encoding scheme
(i.e. support non-english texts better than cm)