fonts
I don't know if this is a stupid question but is it possible to force every font to be a normal or an \mdseries font? I've searched for an hour for solutions but only found how to force a normal font within, say, an italic font; but this is not what I wanted.
Below is my MWE.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
{\mdseries \textbf{summa} \textit{cum} \textsc{laude}}
\end{document}
So how do you make the outcome to be 'summa cum laude' instead of 'summa cum ʟᴀᴜᴅᴇ'?
Declare a new symbol font:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\DeclareSymbolFont{sfletters}{OML}{cmbrm}{m}{it}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\salpha}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0B}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sbeta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0C}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sgamma}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0D}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sdelta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0E}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sepsilon}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0F}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\szeta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"10}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\seta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"11}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\stheta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"12}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\siota}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"13}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\skappa}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"14}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\slambda}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"15}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\smu}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"16}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\snu}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"17}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sxi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"18}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\spi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"19}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\srho}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1A}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\ssigma}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1B}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\stau}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1C}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\supsilon}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1D}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sphi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1E}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\schi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1F}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\spsi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"20}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\somega}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"21}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarepsilon}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"22}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svartheta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"23}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarpi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"24}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarrho}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"25}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarsigma}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"26}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarphi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"27}
\begin{document}
$\alpha\salpha\beta\sbeta\gamma\sgamma$
\end{document}
You can define a \msf command:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\msf}[1]{%
\ifcat\noexpand#1\relax\msfgreek{#1}\else\mathsf{#1}\fi
}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\msfgreek}[1]{\csname s\expandafter\@gobble\string#1\endcsname}
\makeatother
\DeclareSymbolFont{sfletters}{OML}{cmbrm}{m}{it}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\salpha}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0B}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sbeta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0C}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sgamma}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0D}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sdelta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0E}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sepsilon}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"0F}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\szeta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"10}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\seta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"11}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\stheta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"12}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\siota}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"13}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\skappa}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"14}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\slambda}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"15}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\smu}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"16}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\snu}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"17}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sxi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"18}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\spi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"19}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\srho}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1A}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\ssigma}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1B}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\stau}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1C}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\supsilon}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1D}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sphi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1E}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\schi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"1F}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\spsi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"20}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\somega}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"21}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarepsilon}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"22}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svartheta}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"23}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarpi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"24}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarrho}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"25}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarsigma}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"26}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\svarphi}{\mathord}{sfletters}{"27}
\begin{document}
$\alpha\salpha\beta\sbeta\gamma\sgamma$
$\alpha\msf{\alpha}x\msf{x}$
\end{document}
Uppercase Greek is not covered, here. Exercise for the reader. ;-)
There’s a free version of the EB Garamond family on GitHub that comes in different weights. It’s based on EB Garamond 12, though, not 8. You can download regular, bold, italic and bold italic into your project directory or a subdirectory. Just Loading EB Garamond with the Path option to this subdirectory should work.
Then, create your font family using the Path, Scale, BoldFont, and BoldItalicFont options to \newfontfamily. For example, [Scale = MatchUppercase, Ligatures = {Common, TeX}, BoldFont = EBGaramond08-bold.otf, BoldItalicFont = EBGaramond08-BoldItalic.otf] (If you have such fonts.) Use Scale=MatchUppercase to make the heights match, then whatever Ligatures, Numbers and other options you want. You might also need BoldFeatures and BoldItalicFeatures. If you’re loading the specific font files you downloaded into a directory yourself, you probably want to load them by filename with Extension = .otf.
If your copy of the bold font is recent, it should contain small caps already, and they should just work. If you need to load a separate font, you might need to set the BoldFeatures = { SmallCapsFont = ... } option as well.
There is a free version of a Garamond No8 with small caps at Arkandis.
Best Answer
Some version with a
switchfrom one 'style' to another 'style'I've used the version without
\text...commands just for comparison.