>From ec360d66cdab86bbe98d544aca52aaec1e03518e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:11:35 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Add targets for alternative fonts Hi, As I implied in the cover-letter of previous patch set, I attempted to add make targets for alternative monospaced fonts. Courier font is said to be a standard monospeced typewriter font. It is good as long as you don't mix it with other fonts, but when mixed used in Times Roman text, it looks too wide and too thin. Typewriter fonts available in LaTeX are listed at the LaTeX Font Catalogue site: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/typewriterfonts.html (including both monospaced and proportional fonts). I have no idea how much people prefer courier font, so I took two approaches. One was to try courier font variations. The other was to try "txtt" based font packages. "txtt" is a font designed to look better when mixed used with Times fonts. But I couldn't figure out which to propose because of pros and cons of candidate fonts. So I just added make targets for people to try. Detailed explanation of these new targets and font packages can be found in the commit message of the 3rd patch ("Makefile: Add targets for alternative monospace fonts"). Summary of pros and cons of each target is as follows. mss: (courier scaled) pros: o can build on old TeX installation cons: o too thin o scaling by .94 affects apparent vertical position (looks slightly lower than Times Roman text) msr: (nimbusmono regular) pros: o thick enough cons: o requires recent TeX installation o scaling by .94 affects apparent vertical position (looks slightly lower than Times Roman text) msn: (nimbusmononarrow) pros: o can hold up to 64 characters in a line of code snippet cons: o requires recent TeX installation o single letter variable names denoted by \co{} may be hard to recognize mstx: (txtt) pros: o can build on old TeX installation o looks mostly good when mixed with Times Roman cons: o zero character is slashed o asterisk character has a higher position msnt: (newtxtt) pros: o looks mostly good when mixed with Times Roman cons: o requires recent TeX installation o asterisk character has a higher position Shrinking courier based fonts reduces the x-height, and causes monospaced text to look somewhat lower than Times Roman text. Actual baseline is not affected but the look is affected. My preference is the target "msnt" which uses "newtxtt" font package. But "txtt" based fonts have higher positions of "*" character. I anticipate some people to have hesitation to use it. There are other obstacles here. Some of the targets require quite recent LaTeX installation or manual installation of font packages. On Ubuntu Trusty, only the targets "mss" and "mstx" can be built on TeX Live 2013 available there. On Ubuntu Xenial, TeX Live 2015 works just fine for all the targets. My recommendation is to use "mss" (courier scaled) option as the default and permit up to 57 characters in a line of code snippets, and give people alternative font choices as make targets. If "mss" is acceptable as the default, we can modify "perfbook.tex" and revert ad hoc fontsize tweaks done in the past. The latter half of this patch set is an attempt to use sans serif font (Helvetica) as default font for one-column layout. Sans serif fonts are said to be easier to read on a lower resolution display. Again, there is an obstacle here. I used a package "mathastext" for math mode font tweaks, but the version of mathastext on Ubuntu Trusty conflicts with hyperref package. The version provided on Ubuntu Xenial works fine with a workaround given in the 5th patch ("Redefine \path command for sans serif font"). Please take time to see which one meets your preference and let me know what you feel. Thanks, Akira Akira Yokosawa (6): Separate font package declarations Adjust scale of sans serif font Makefile: Add targets for alternative monospace fonts Makefile: Add target '1csf' (one-column sans serif) Redefine \path command for sans serif font Makefile: Add notice of mathastext version for 1csf Makefile | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- perfbook.tex | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe perfbook" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
