Re: Font shape substitute for boldface

[Werner LEMBERG]

Hello Liang-Ting,


sorry for the late reply.

> The CJK package assumes the default value `bx` will be used and does
> not provide an explicit substitute, so using CJK in conjunction with
> other fonts that change the default breaks `\textbf{...}` in CJK.
> 
> Now I wonder if adding substitutes explicitly by
> 
>> \DeclareFontShape{C70}{bkai}{b}{n}{<-> ssub * bkai/bx/n}{\CJKbold}
> 
> to c70bkai.fd and other .fd files is a proper solution.

I'm not sure.  The decision whether to classify a font as 'b' or 'bx'
is highly subjective, and some 'b' fonts look bolder than 'bx' series
of other fonts...

However, nothing prevents you from adding `\DeclareFontShape` commands
to the preamble of your document; this should solve your problem
locally.

> And, is the CJK package still accepting any new contributions?

Not really, except necessary bug fixes (due to changes to the LaTeX
kernel, for example).  Today, people should rather use LuaTeX or XeTeX
for typesetting CJK documents, which both come with much better font
(and font feature) support.


    Werner