So I know to write \LaTeX to get the symbol, but is there a way to do it letter by letter so as to make the first letter bold?
[Tex/LaTex] How to write “LaTeX” in LaTeX with the first letter bolded
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You can find a number of font alternatives that get pretty close to your sample at the LaTeX Font Catalogue, Calligraphical and Handwritten Fonts. Here are some options (although some are of questionable typographically technical quality, i.e. not vectorized fonts that look pixel-y):
Lukas Svatba has even more options. For information on how to implement a particular font, see the respective page in the Font Catalogue.
The problem is that words subject to automatic hyphenation must be formed with letters in the same font (LuaTeX has not this limitation).
I don't know what macro you're using for emboldening the first letter, so I'll make one on the spot.
Automatic hyphenation is reenabled after the initial, but of course this could lead to wrong results; if false hyphenation results, add \- in the appropriate spots. For languages such as French or Italian, where hyphenation is mostly at syllable boundaries and syllables are defined grammatically, it shouldn't be a big problem, except in case the word has some prefix that should be taken care of by hyphenation in “nonstandard” way. Which might be the case with Désambiguïsation.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\newcommand{\fb}[1]{\dofb#1}
\newcommand{\dofb}[1]{\textbf{#1}\nobreak\hspace{0pt}}
\begin{document}
Dans notre approche, nous avons défini quatre types de
méta critère: \fb{Désambiguïsation}, \fb{Temporel},
\fb{Contenu} et \fb{Autre}. Pour évaluer l'apport de
chacun des types de méta critère que nous avons mis en
place, nous avons évalué notre système sur toutes les
possibilités d'association (\mbox{c.-à-d.}, 15~possibilités).
\end{document}
Warning
In my opinion you should not allow automatic hyphenation in these cases. Since you're not going to use this first-letter-bold words very often, leave to the final revision where to appropriately add \-.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\newcommand{\fb}[1]{\dofb#1}
\newcommand{\dofb}[1]{\textbf{#1}}
\begin{document}
Dans notre approche, nous avons défini quatre types de
méta critère: \fb{Désam\-biguïsation}, \fb{Temporel},
\fb{Contenu} et \fb{Autre}. Pour évaluer l'apport de
chacun des types de méta critère que nous avons mis en
place, nous avons évalué notre système sur toutes les
possibilités d'association (\mbox{c.-à-d.}, 15~possibilités).
\end{document}
Best Answer
Note: There's a similar question and answer here: Color up each letter of \LaTeX word
You can find the definitions of
\TeX,\LaTeXand\LaTeXeinlatex.ltx(which is really, really surprising ;-) )Easiest way is to use the definitions and save them as new commands, say
\BLaTeXforBold \LaTeX;-)However, the kerning is wrong initially, so I changed it slightly -- please provide own values for the kerning if the given example does not really fit yet regarding personal taste.