ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³cmsd.sty 1997/10/26 v1.0 beta ³ ³ ³ ³this is a preliminary version; ³ ³it may be changed or withdrawn at any time! ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Copyright 1997 Walter Schmidt This program can redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License distributed from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. An alternative interface to the EC Sans Serif boldface fonts ------------------------------------------------------------ The EC (T1, Cork) encoded versions of the `CM Sans Serif boldface extended' fonts differ considerably from the traditionally (OT1) encoded ones: At large sizes, > 10pt, they have thinner strokes and are much wider. At 25pt they are hardly to be recognized as being `boldface'. The LaTeX package `cmsd' can solve this problem: Using this package will---as much as possible---make these T1 fonts look like the traditional ones did. You do *not* need any new fonts; the package just changes the way LaTeX makes use of the current ones. Using this package requires 3 files to be installed, i.e. you must copy them to a directory where LaTeX searches for its input files: cmsd.sty t1cmsd.fd ts1cmsd.fd If your LaTeX is older than from dec. 1996 AND your operating system is Un*x, then you have to rename two of the files: t1cmsd.fd -> OT1cmsd.fd ts1cmsd.fd -> TS1cmsd.fd Then the package is to be loaded in the usual way: \usepackage{cmsd} Alternatively you may access the fonts directly via the NFSS. The \fontfamly is `cmsd' (CM Sans Serif Display). *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING The package is to be used in conjunction with T1 and TS1 fonts only, i.e. you must issue e.g. \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} before. The \fontfamily cmsd is defined for the T1 and TS1 encodings only. In case you experience any problems or want to propose any changes, please send a message to: Walter Schmidt Please, obtain my (email) address from the most recent version of this file! -- finis