Latex and font

In my opinion, fonts are the most complicated issue in latex.

1. Select font

Fonts suitable for screen reading are not necessarily suitable for printing, and fonts suitable for CRT display are not necessarily suitable for LCD display. For example, in windows, the display is clear on the screen, and printing is ugly (looks thin ). I generally like to use the textHua Kang Jian songOrFounder Shu song simplifiedThese two types of. The same is true for English fonts. on the screen, I prefer to see sans serif such as verdana and Arial, the text printed on the paper should be lined with a font (also known as the Rome font ). I personally think that the Rome fonts suitable for the text are: lucida bright (The latex companion), Bookman (Effiective STLAndThe pragmatic programmer), Palatino (Computer Organization & Design.

Latex default computer Modern Roman font has several problems:

First, the layout looks the same. By identifying fonts, it is easy to determine which books and articles adopt latex system layout, because almost all these books and articles use the computer Modern Roman font designed by dr. knuth as the text font. This may reflect the trouble of changing latex fonts from one side. (The current situation is much better. You can easily select fonts for macro packages such as pxfonts and txfonts)

The second is that the letters are too slim and the printing effect is not ideal (especially when using a high-resolution laser printer or a photocopier, the letters look a little thin ). The main reason for this is that dr. knuth designed the computer modern family font in the 1970s S,
At that time, the resolution of the laser printer is generally only 300 dpi. If the font strokes are thicker, the printing may be black. Now the resolution of the laser printer is 600 dpi or even 1200 dpi, And the font of the CM is not strong. Some people think that the line of the CM font is exaggerated.

Third, the text fonts of articles in some fields are used to Times Roman, and CM fonts do not meet the requirements.

2. Install the English font

3. Install Chinese Fonts

. To be continued.