[OS X TeX] Alternate characters in CM or LM?

[Nathan Paxton]

On 20 Mar 2008, at 5:15 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2008, at 09:04, Nathan Paxton wrote:
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>> Since the PS 35 aren't working so well with 10.5.2 (at least,  
>> that's how I understand it)
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> I'm not sure it's only the ``35 PS fonts'', but as I'm not using  
> Leopard, I really don't know.
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>> I need to use something besides the mathpazo package. I can live  
>> with CM or LM, but I'd like to know how to access some of the  
>> alternative characters in those. Specifically, I like the look of  
>> small caps and old-style figures, as in mathpazo.
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> I don't think mathpazo uses true small caps; CM and LM do, as  
> pxfonts (Palatino-based as mathpazo).
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>> How do I get those in (I assume) LM?
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> Just as with mathpazo: \textsc{...} or {\scshape ...} for small  
> capitals, and \oldstylenums{...} for old style figures.

	Is there a way to invoke these for the whole document? In mathpazo,  
e.g., one can set the package options [sc,osf] for small caps and old  
style figures. How do I tell Latex to do something similar with other  
fonts, like pxfonts, etc.?
>

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Nathan A. Paxton
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Government, Harvard University

Resident Tutor
John Winthrop House, Harvard University

napaxton AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton
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