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
```latex
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
[[http://docs.miktex.org/manual/psfonts.html#chgupdmapcfg|online documentation]].
Then execute the command ''initexmf --mkmaps'', and the
job 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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