Using the Latin Modern fonts#
The lm fonts are an exciting addition to the armoury of the (La)TeX user : high quality outlines of fonts that were until recently difficult to obtain, all in a free and relatively compact package. However, the spartan information file that comes with the fonts remarks “It is presumed that a potential user knows what to do with all these files”. This answer aims to fill in the requirements : the job is really not terribly difficult.
Note that teTeX distributions, from version 3.0, already have the lm fonts : all you need do is use them. The fonts may also be installed via the package manager, in a current MiKTeX system. The remainder of this answer, then, is for people who don’t use such systems.
The font (and related) files appear on CTAN as a set of single-entry TDS trees — fonts
, dvips
, tex
and doc
. The doc
subtree really need not be copied (it’s really a pair of sample files), but copy the other three into your existing Local $TEXMF
tree, and update the filename database.
Now, incorporate the fonts in the set searched by pdfLaTeX, dvips
, dvipdfm
/dvipdfmx
, your previewers and Type 1-to-PK conversion programs, by
On a teTeX system earlier than version 2.0, edit the file
$TEXMF/dvips/config/updmap
and insert an absolute path for the ‘‘lm.map’’ just after the line that starts ‘‘extra_modules= »’’ (and before the closing quotes).On a teTeX version 2.0 (or later), execute the command
updmap --enable Map lm.map
.On a MiKTeX system earlier than version 2.2, the “Refresh filename database” operation, which you performed after installing files, also updates the system’s “PostScript resources database”.
On a MiKTeX system, version 2.2 or later, update
updmap.cfg
as described in the MiKTeX online documentation. Then execute the commandinitexmf --mkmaps
, and thejob is done.
To use the fonts in a LaTeX document, you should \usepackage{lmodern}
this
will make the fonts the default for all three LaTeX font families (“roman”,
“sans-serif” and “typewriter”). You also need \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
for
text, and \usepackage{textcomp}
if you want to use any of the TS1-encoding
symbols. There is no support for using fonts according to the OT1 encoding.
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