The little things…

LaTeX is full of wonderful features, many of them slightly hackish to make us feel 1337. But some minor issues are rather annoying. My favourite peeve: Fonts. Installing a font in LaTeX is too painful. I avoid the issue. What about familiar TrueType? Or easily available and frequently high quality OpenType fonts? No, no. Not in teTeX. Too… easy. Too… modern. So I use whatever is available. Which one’d think was perfectly fine, since UiO has many wonderful text fonts available in its LaTeX. But, alas, not many math fonts. I’d prefer to do my M.Sc thesis in Concorde or Garamond, but there are simply no math fonts available to go with them. The Euler font is a no-go. It’s too different from any sane text font. It’ll make separate math environments warm and cuddly to behold, and inline math constructs ugly ugly. So I’m stuck with Palatino and Math Pazo, which are at least free and don’t print as badly on a standard printer as do the Computer Modern fonts. (I could have used Lucida Bright fonts, if I liked them.)