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         Using the Linotype Sabon fonts with LaTeX

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                                                  2003-10-22
                                              Walter Schmidt
                                       <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>


Within LaTeX, the Linotype Sabon fonts are mapped to the
font families "lsbx" and "lsbj".  "lsbx" provides regular
digits, whereas "lsbj" has oldstyle digits as the default
ones.  For instance, the command

  \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{lsbx}

makes LaTeX use Adobe Sabon with regular digits as the
default roman font family.

*
*  Notice that Sabon is supported with T1 (european) and TS1
*  (textcompanion) encoding only, so you should issue the
*  commands
*
*
*  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
*  \usepackage{textcomp}
*
*
* in the document preamble.  The obsolete OT1 encoding,
* which is still the default with LaTeX, is _not_ supported.
*

As to math typesetting, it is recommended to use the Euler
fonts through the package eulervm.sty:

  \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{lsbx}
  \usepackage{eulervm}

Or, if you prefer oldstyle digits in text mode:

  \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{lsbj}
  \usepackage[euler-digits]{eulervm}


NFSS classification of the text fonts
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  family  series  shape(s)   PostScript FontName
  --------------------------------------------------
  lsbx    m       n, it, sc  SabonLT-Roman
                             Sabon-RomanSC  
                             SabonLT-Italic   
  lsbx    b       n, it      SabonLT-Bold         
                             SabonLT-BoldItalic   
  lsbj    m       n, it, sc  SabonLT-Roman     
                             Sabon-RomanSC   
                             Sabon-ItalicOsF 
  lsbj    b       n, it      Sabon-BoldOsF       
                             Sabon-BoldItalicOsF 

Available encodings are T1 (European) and TS1 (Text
Companion).  The TS1 encoding compriseds only those symbols
that are part of the ISO-Adobe character set, plus the Euro.


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