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Font pairing guide

Example

Introduction

When creating a document that consists of both Latin and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) scripts, I often find that the Latin typefaces do not blend well with the CJK ones in terms of their relative proportions: The Latin typefaces often look too small compared with the CJK typefaces.

To solve this problem in LaTeX, one approach is to scale up the Latin typefaces. For example, suppose that we want to use Times (or its clone) for Latin text and for math, but scaled to 108%. We can write

\documentclass{article}% default font size for body text is 10pt
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes}[Scale=1.08]
\usepackage[scaled=1.08]{newtxmath}
\begin{document}
Nominal font size for body text: \csname f@size\endcsname pt

Times clone font size: \the\fontdimen6 \font

Math font size: $\the\fontdimen6\space\textfont1\space$
\end{document}

Do you see the problems?

  1. We have asked for a scale factor of 1.08, but LaTeX gives us Times scaled to 10.80002pt. What’s up with the extra 0.00002pt?
  2. The newtxmath package has an option to scale math fonts. But what about other math font packages? For example, the (commercial) math font package mtpro2 does not have a scaled option. To someone who purchases the “Complete” license, this can be very frustrating.

allow-frac-scale.tex

To address the first problem (the inaccurate scaling), I offer the file allow-frac-scale.tex. This file takes advantage of eTeX’s “expressions”, so you can write your scale factors in fractions to get more accurate scaling results:

\input{allow-frac-scale}
\documentclass{article}% default font size for body text is 10pt
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes}[Scale=108/100]
\usepackage[scaled=108/100]{newtxmath}
\begin{document}
Nominal font size for body text: \csname f@size\endcsname pt

Times clone font size: \the\fontdimen6 \font

Math font size: $\the\fontdimen6\space\textfont1\space$
\end{document}

mtpro2-patch.tex

For those who have licensed mtpro2, I offer the file mtpro2-patch.tex. But first, you need to manually fix 14 bugs in your mtpro2.sty file (please let me know if you find more). Otherwise my patch file may produce errors. The instructions are outlined at the beginning of the file.

This file started as a tool to scale the MathTime Pro 2 fonts, but over the years it grew to something much more. To use it, you write in your preamble:

\usepackage[<options>]{mtpro2}
\newcommand*\mtpscale{<scale factor>}% optional
\newcommand*\mtpscriptscale{<scale factor>}% optional
\newcommand*\mtpscriptscriptscale{<scale factor>}% optional
\input{mtpro2-patch}

Here are the features:

  • Scale the entire MathTime Pro 2 family according to your scale factor(s), for both “Lite” and “Complete” versions.
  • Some font bugs are fixed too: The parentheses of your binomial coefficients are no longer overly large.
  • Provide a \mtp@bBigg@ command to help you create \biggg, \Biggg, etc.
  • Fix the sizing of \undercbrace and \overcbrace when your font size is no longer 10pt.
  • Redefine pmatrix to always use large round parentheses, so you don’t need to write \PARENS{\begin{matrix}...\end{matrix}} anymore.
  • Redefine Bmatrix and cases to always use the appropriate braces (they know about curly, morphed, and straight braces).
  • Provide \tabularbin and \tabularrel in case (pun intended) you want to align your binary and relation symbols in cases or any stacked expressions.
  • Provide \cramped, with an implementation slightly different from (and less buggy than) the mathtools version.
  • Provide \subalign if you want alignment points in your subscript stacks.
  • Finally, there are various fixes to the bugs I’ve found in the amsmath package and in the LaTeX2e kernel. These bugs were reported to the LaTeX team, but they might never get fixed due to backward compatibility concerns.