On 2016/10/18 23:45:48 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:57:56AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: >> >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(-) > > Applied and pushed, thank you! > > Getting on a plane soon, but will check tables containing code later, as > these have been the places where font size has been the most troublesome. > > Next time, could you please resend the whole series as v2? Just makes it > a bit easier to process. ;-) Yes. I noticed the error just before leaving home. I half expected to get request for v2. Doing manual patch submission in the morning was a bad idea... Regards, Akira > > Thanx, Paul > > -- 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
