Fedora and Garamond (LaTeX) fonts

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi Aradenatorix!

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:14:05 -0600 Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
<aradnix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, perhaps the problem is not with the Garamond font in fact.
> 
> You should take care about few typographical details, one of those is about
> the boldface. As you should know, the boldface is an invention from the
> 19th century,  and the fashion of the boldfaces still goes on.
> 
> But Garamond, or the most typefaces created under that name are designs
> fron the 16th century, a pretty earlier than the union of the bolds to the
> typographic republic. So, a good design or reconstruction of the Garamond
> (or Granjon: A typographer with which historically has been confused
> Garamond's work to the point that many reconstructions currently sold under
> the name Garamond correspond with the work not of Garamond but Granjon.)
> work deliberately omites the boldfaces. A good design that is
> typographically consistent skips boldface when composing the text in Garamond.
> If you need a boldface to use then you should use another typeface created
> in the 20th or 21th centuries.

Thanks for the detailed explanation! This makes sense. However, I read
this article about how $400 million could be saved from the government
budget in the US and decided to try if Garamond could rescue my paper.
(And it does, bringing down the number of pages from 27 to 25 from
changing the font from times to ebgaramond.)

So, is it possible to set up the latex document such that it will take
\bf from some other font (in order to obtain boldface)? \bf is a
requirement in the journal style file (but strangely, no requirement on
font family -- well, not yet anyway).

Thanks again!

Best wishes,
Ranjan

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