[OS X TeX] Help! Dissertation due and long dashes are faint.

[Herb Schulz]

On 6/16/04 9:50 AM, "Ralph Martin" <Ralph.Martin at cs.cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 16 Jun 2004, at 3:40 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>> What you can try is use Latin Modern instead of CM; that should
>> practically leave the linebreaks unchanged, but give slightly bolder
>> characters. Latin Modern are installed by default with the TeX
>> i-Package. You select them by adding in the preamble of your LaTeX
>> input:
>> 
>> \usepackage{lmodern}
> 
> I just tried this out quickly on a sample file to see the differences,
> and all italics and bold reverted to normal text. Beware.
> 
> Ralph
> --

Howdy,

You've also got to add the line

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

and, to get more symbols,

\usepackage{textcomp}

But I certainly don't have problems with latin modern italic and bold.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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