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New monospaced font on CTAN: Inconsolata

Juni 6th, 2009 by Stefan Kottwitz

The Inconsolata font package has been released on CTAN yesterday. Inconsolata is a monospaced (”typewriter”) font designed for code listings and the like by Raph Levien. It’s supporting several encodings including T1, OT1 and LY1.

The font can be used by loading inconsolata.sty. The package provides a font scaling option [scaled=X] and would redefine the typewriter font obtained by \texttt. Here’s a small example from the documentation, showing both how to load the font and how it’s looking:

inconsolata example

More information can be obtained here:

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6 responses about “New monospaced font on CTAN: Inconsolata”

  1. intexpert said:
    Juni 7th, 2009 at 06:15

    Please, can you give me some info for how to install in a Debian system from CTAN files?

  2. Stefan Kottwitz said:
    Juni 7th, 2009 at 23:02

    Hi,

    copy the files where TeX would be able to find them and run texhash or mktexlsr. If you want to follow the TeX directory structure read its documentation (texdoc tds). I suggest copying the inconsolata files to TEXMFHOME (kpsewhich –var-value=TEXMFHOME), perhaps ~/texmf. It could look like:

    ~/texmf$ ls -R
.:
doc  fonts  tex

./doc:
inconsolata

./doc/inconsolata:
fonttable.pdf  inconsolata.pdf	test.pdf

./fonts:
enc  map  otf  sfd  tfm  type1

./fonts/enc:
inconsolata

./fonts/enc/inconsolata:
fi4-ec.enc   fi4-ot1tt.enc  fi4-texnansi.enc
fi4-ei1.enc  fi4-qxtt.enc   fi4-ts1.enc

./fonts/map:
inconsolata

./fonts/map/inconsolata:
fi4.map

./fonts/otf:
inconsolata

./fonts/otf/inconsolata:
Inconsolata.otf

./fonts/sfd:
inconsolata

./fonts/sfd/inconsolata:
Inconsolata.sfd

./fonts/tfm:
inconsolata

./fonts/tfm/inconsolata:
ec-inconsolata.tfm   qx-inconsolata.tfm  texnansi-inconsolata.tfm
ei1-inconsolata.tfm  rm-inconsolata.tfm  ts1-inconsolata.tfm

./fonts/type1:
inconsolata

./fonts/type1/inconsolata:
Inconsolata.pfb

./tex:
latex

./tex/latex:
inconsolata

./tex/latex/inconsolata:
ei1fi4.fd	 inconsolata.tex  ot1fi4.fd  t1fi4.fd  ts1fi4.fd
inconsolata.sty  ly1fi4.fd	  qxfi4.fd   test.tex

    Then run texhash or mktexlsr.

    Further modify the map files, using updmap or the like. A quick hack could be editing pdftex.map, inserting the lines of fi4.map, for instance

    rm-inconsolata Inconsolata "fi4OT1TypewriterEncoding ReEncodeFont" < [fi4-ot1tt.enc
    for the OT1 encoding.

    Afterwards pdflatex should be able to compile a tex file using inconsolata.

    Stefan

  3. ฟอนท์ Inconsolata กับ LaTeX | Cholwich's blog said:
    Juli 4th, 2009 at 16:38

    […] Inconsolata เป็นฟอนท์สำหรับโปรแกรมเมอร์ (หมายถึงฟอนท์ความกว้างคงที่สำหรับแก้ไขโปรแกรม) ที่ออกแบบโดย Raph Levien ซึ่งผมใช้มาสักระยะหนึ่งแล้ว เนื่องจากชอบรูปร่าง สัดส่วนของตัวอักษร เมื่อไม่นานนี้มีคนใจดีนำฟอนท์นี้ไปทำเป็นแพคเกจสำหรับ LaTeX ซึ่งสามารถโหลดได้จาก http://ctan.org/pkg/inconsolata ทำให้ผมสามารถนำฟอนท์นี้มาใช้สำหรับแสดง code บนสไลด์ที่ใช้ประกอบการสอน (ผมใช้ LaTeX Beamer สำหรับทำสไลด์) […]

  4. Buttman said:
    Oktober 27th, 2010 at 08:30

    This is a good font. But unfortunately
    the package does not support bold and italic.

  5. Mirko said:
    Dezember 6th, 2010 at 19:03

    Hello, I followed your installation instruction in the comment, but I get this error:

    “”"!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file rm-inconsolata): Font rm-inconsolata at 480 not f
    ound”"”

    Do you know how to fix that? I’d really like to use inconsolata in my thesis.

    Thank you.

  6. Mirko said:
    Dezember 6th, 2010 at 19:09

    Never mind. I had an old ~/.texmf-var that was conflicting somehow. Removed the directory, solved the problem.

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