On 2013-02-17, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 11.02.2013 16:16, schrieb Guenter Milde:
>>> Using SwitchDefault works for kurier and kurier light. But for both I
>>> would also have to add \renewcommand{\bfdefault}{b} to the preamble.
>> I don't think this is necessary, because the font definition files
>> (at least "t1kurier.fd" for T1) contain the usual substitutions:...
> Thanks for having a look. It is strange why the kurier.sty file then do
> \renewcommand{\bfdefault}{b} albeit this is not necessary.
I suppose this is outdated code from a time the font definition files missed
the alias substitutions or there were no font definition files at all.
>>> The next problem is that
>>> \usepackage[math]{kurier}
>>> activates the kurier math font. But as I cannot use kurier.sty, I would
>>> have to add the most of kurier.sty's content to the preamble.
>> Using kurier as math font is only sensible if kurier is also the document
>> default font.
> I don't think so. Personally I like my document being typeset in a
> serif font but only math should use the nice-looking kurier math font.
In this case, I recommend to write two files kurier-math.sty and
iwona-math.sty add them to the selection of mathematical fonts.
I would actually set up them as math-version "sans" in the *.sty file and
either add an option "default" to pre-select "sans" as math version or let
the user do this in the LaTeX preamble or in ERT.
>> There are 2 use cases:
>> 1. It seems the package authors intended it to be combined with a
>> different sans-serif rather than a serif font, as the package replaces
>> \rmdefault.
> But I think that this is a bug. If I want to have all my text in
> sansserif I can change \familydefault or set everything into \textsf.
> But it cannot be the idea to use a sansserif font for serif stuff. I'll
> ask the package author about this.
Remember that kurier and iwona are quite old packages, maybe the author
did not know better at the time of writing...
>> 2. Use a modified version of the definitions of kurier.sty to define a
>> "sans" math-version using the kurier math fonts.
> That is quite a lot of code. I'll wait for the reply of the package author.
See my above suggestion.
Thanks,
Günter
