substitutefont

Usage

The macro \substitutefont{<encoding>}{<family>}{<new-family>} selects the font family <new-family> as replacement for <family> in the font encoding <encoding>. The substitution must be defined before the first use of the specified font encoding, preferably in the document preamble. In contrast to the deprecated \substitutefontfamily macro provided by Babel, \substitutefont does not write auxiliary files.

The <encoding> is one of the LaTeX font encodings [encguide], e.g., T1 for Latin, T2A for Cyrillic(Russian), or LGR for Greek.

For <family> and <new-family>, use the «TeX names» of the font. They are defined by a TeX font package’s *.fd or *.sty file(s). LaTeX stores the default family names for Roman, Sans-Serif, and Teletype fonts in the \rmdefault, \sfdefault, and \ttdefault macros respectively.

Example: Set the font family to Palatino using the standard package mathpazo for Latin and GFS Didot for Greek:

\usepackage[sc,slantedGreek]{mathpazo}
\usepackage{substitutefont}
\substitutefont{LGR}{\rmdefault}{udidot}

For details on LaTeX font selection, see [encguide] and [fntguide].

Tests/Examples

• Simple test with Latin fonts: substitutefont-test.tex, substitutefont-test.pdf

• Palatino with Greek from GFS Didot: greek-palatino-didot.tex, greek-palatino-didot.pdf

• Times/Helvetica/Courier (newtx) with GFS Artemisia, GFS Neohellenic, and teletype from the CB fonts: greek-times-artemisia.tex, greek-times-artemisia.pdf (see also package txfontsb)

• Latin Modern with Cyrillic from CM LGC: cyrillic-lm-lgc.tex, cyrillic-lm-lgc.pdf

• Times/Helvetica/Courier (TeX Gyre) with Cyrillic ParaType fonts: cyrillic-paratype.tex, cyrillic-paratype.pdf

References