Roman numerals are often used to denote parts of a large or multi-volume work. The numbers from one to ten become I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X. The letters of the alphabet used in ancient Rome to denote numbers: I = 1 V = 5 X = 10 L = 50 C = 100 D = 500 M = 1000. What do the letters in Roman numerals mean? The following table shows the meaning of each of these numbers. The letters are always capitalized: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M. The seven letters of the alphabet are used to make Roman numerals. Serif or old-fashioned font (sometimes in Latin capitals). Roman Font (plural Roman Fonts) is a straight font as opposed to cursive or cursive fonts. The best sources for tables are "table numbers" (fixed-width or monospaced numbers) rather than proportional ones. Traditionally, many designers have used serif fonts for text and sans serif fonts for numbers (or tabular information). They are usually written in Latin (serif). Real Roman numerals are simply combinations of the letters I, V, X, L, and C. The preferred font is Arial, Futura or Helvetica and the font size can range from 8 to 14 points. Authors should use a sans-serif font for text in illustrations because clean, simple lines enhance the visual presentation of the illustration. In addition to the fonts presented above, you have Latin Modern Mono Light (a light version of the monospaced font), Latin Modern Mono Light Condensed (a condensed version), Latin Modern Mono Prop (a proportional version of the monosp… ? ), Latin Modern Mono Prop Light ( ? ? ), Latin Modern Mono Slanted (a slanted version of the monospaced font as an alternative to italics), Latin Modern Roman Demi (a semibold version), Latin Modern Roman Dunhill (a version for headings), Latin Modern Roman Slanted (a slanted version of the Roman face), Latin Modern Roman Unslanted (an “upright” version of the italic… ? ? ? ), Latin Modern Sans Demi Cond (a semibold and condensed version of the Sans face) and Latin Modern Sans Quotation (a “wider” version of the Sans face, specially designed for small point sizes).What is the best font for Roman numerals? The preferred font is Times New Roman, 12 points. There is also a “math” font to use with the unicode-math package (again, check my book ? ) as you can see in this rather arbitrary “math-like” example Also, this font does not provide real sub or superscripts, but this is not a problem: when using “simulated” sub and superscripts, X ƎT EX will pick the right font shapes for the size, so the effect is as if you where using real scripts.
It’s important to note that the small caps are in separated fonts, so you need to define a style to properly use them (check my book for more information on how to do that on L YX). Notice that the smaller point sizes gives less detailed and wider characters. The grey text was typeset at 10 pts and zoomed at 400% while the second line was typeset at 5 pts and zoomed at 800%.
NOTE 2: for taking full advantage of its features, this font needs to be used with X ƎT EX ( may I suggest you to use L YX?) or Scribus, because LibO get confused with such a complex font.Įxample of optical sizes with Latin Modern Roman. NOTE: Linux users with T EXLive will have the fonts installed by default in their systems. The people from the GUST group (the Polish users TeX group), solved this problem by “translating” this fonts into Unicode and OpenType, creating a “superfamily” with support for many languages, but without loosing one of its key features: support for optical sizes The Latin Modern (LM) Family of Fonts
The problem with Computer Modern is the same problem with all metafont fonts: they are, well, written in metafont language and use the metafont engine, which means problems for non English languages.
In the volume E of Computers & Typesetting he describes the “Computer Modern” fonts that since then are the default fonts on most L AT EX documentclasses.
Donald Knuth is not only a mathematician, or programmer, or the creator or T EX: he is also a type designer.