Latex vs. non-latex fonts

[Herbert Voss]

Am 13.01.24 um 15:57 schrieb Neal Becker:
> Here is a mwe of the New PX problem.

There is _no_ such  problem with current up-to-date TL2023.

Herbert



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> On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 9:33 AM Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM Christopher Menzel
>     <chris.menzel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>         On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
>>         I'm writing another paper for IEEE conference.  I'm using
>>         lualatex to
>>         produce pdf.
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>>         In document/settings/fonts, I'm set to using all defaults. If
>>         I don't
>>         check 'use non-TeX fonts', the output looks good. If I do
>>         check 'use
>>         non-TeX fonts', the fonts look much thinner and to my eye not
>>         very
>>         pleasing.  Again I have not changed any font settings from
>>         defaults.
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>         And that’s why they don’t look good. You need to choose one
>         from the drop-down list. The problem with using non-TeX fonts
>         is that there might not be a corresponding math font. One that
>         does have a math font and that looks quite nice is Cambria. If
>         you are using MacOS or Windows you should have it on your
>         machine if you’ve installed Office 365 or a standalone of any
>         of the usual Microsoft applications. To get the corresponding
>         math font once you’ve selected Cambria from the drop-down, add
>         the following to the preamble:
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>         \usepackage{unicode-math}
>         \setmathfont{Cambria Math}
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>         If you’re using Linux, there are instructions to be found on
>         the interwebs for installing the Microsoft fonts Cambria,
>         Calibri, and Consolas. They are extracted from the old
>         PowerPoint Viewer, which Microsoft released for free and hence
>         (so I recall gathering from discussions in various forums) can
>         be extracted and used legally.
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>>         Is there a recommended alternative set of fonts?
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>         For TeX fonts, I really like New PX
>         <https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/newpx/>, a descendent of
>         Palatino with a very nice math font. Add the following to your
>         preamble (and select “Default” from the drop-down font list):
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>         \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>         \usepackage{newpxtext,newpxmath}
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>         Vastly superior aesthetically to the long outdated (but still,
>         sadly, oft-used) Computer Modern default.
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>         Chris Menzel
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>     I just tried out the New PX alternative.  It looks good except for
>     one strange problem.  In the top of the paper is author name and
>     authormark.  Authormark (1 author) will be an asterisk.  With CM
>     the asterisk is in the normal position, but with New PX the
>     asterisk is about the middle of the text height, not in a
>     superscript position.  Since this is right at the top of the paper
>     and glaringly obvious I don't think I can use it.
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