Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Autoinst font question

[yoriz]

Hi everyone,

I have a question about installing fonts using autoinst. I've been looking for the answer on this forum and couldn't find it. I hope I am not asking something that has been answered already.

The issue is the following: I have TeXLive 2009 on an Ubuntu computer. I just installed, using autoinst, a new OTF font (BemboPro). The font works perfectly fine. However: when I use the package BemboPro, I somehow lose the default sans serif bold font. In particular, pdflatex returns the following warning:

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/cmss/b/n' undefined
(Font) using `T1/cmss/m/n' instead on input line 12.

A minimal 'working' example (except that you don't have the package BemboPro) is:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{BemboPro}
\begin{document}
This is supposed to be in Bembo Pro. 
{\sffamily This is supposed to be in sans serif normal. }
{\sffamily\bfseries This is supposed to be in sans serif bold. }
\end{document}

So the issue is: when I include BemboPro, I don't have the sans serif bold font (it gives the warning above). But whenever I remove the command "\usepackage{BemboPro}" the sans serif bold works again. So somehow the BemboPro package undoes the definition of the T1/cmss/b/n font shape.

What am I doing wrong and how should I fix this?

Thanks very much,

Yori

[frabjous]

One of the many problems with using commercial software is that it makes it impossible for those who don't own the software to help troubleshoot problems with it. I don't have access to the Bembo fonts, but I did get a similar problem with some other packages created with autoinst. In fact, I used BergamoStd (a freely available, though not open source, Bembo lookalike). I couldn't quite figure out what the source of the problem was, but one workaround was simply to load the lmodern package before loading the Bergamo package. This set the default sans to Latin Modern Sans Serif, which is mostly indistinguishable from Computer Modern Sans and if anything, is higher quality).

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{BergamoStd}
\begin{document}
This is supposed to be in BergamoStd.
{\sffamily This is supposed to be in sans serif normal. }
{\sffamily\bfseries This is supposed to be in sans serif bold. }
\end{document}

[yoriz]

Awesome, you're good! Thanks a lot, this works. I'm still confused about how come the font shape cmss/b/n seems to be 'undefined' while loading the package. I checked the source code of BemboProy.sty and could not find any hint on where/why this happens.

The problem has been solved at least. Thanks a lot!

Yori

[localghost]

Now that the problem is obviously solved, please be so kind and mark the topic (not the last post) accordingly as clearly written in the Board Rules (to be read before posting). Please keep that in mind for the future so that further reminders will not be necessary.


Thorsten

[yoriz]

Hi Thorsten,

I know that; I left the question open because I am still unclear about why cmss/b/n is undefined (which is clearly written in my last post).

I will set it to solved.

Yori