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# How to do bold-tt or bold-sc

LaTeX, as delivered, offers no means of handling bold "teletype" or small-caps fonts. There's a practical reason for this (Knuth never designed such fonts), but there are typographical considerations too (the "medium weight" `cmtt` font is already pretty bold (by comparison with other fixed-width fonts), and bold small-caps is not popular with many professional typographers).

There's a set of "extra" MetaFont files on CTAN that provide bold versions of both `cmtt` and `cmcsc` (the small caps font). With modern TeX distributions, one may bring these fonts into use simply by placing them in an [appropriate place in the « texmf » tree](/5_fichiers/tds/ou_installer_les_packages) (these are (La)TeX-specific files, so the "*public*" supplier would be an appropriate place). Once you've [rebuilt the file indexes as necessary](/5_fichiers/installer_des_fichiers_pour_latex), TeX (and friends) will automatically build whatever font files they need when you first make reference to them. There's a jiffy package <ctanpkg:bold-extra> that builds the necessary font data structures so that you can use the fonts within LaTeX.

Another alternative is to use the [EC fonts](/5_fichiers/fontes/que_sont_les_fontes_ec), which come with bold variants of the small-caps fonts.

If you need to use Type 1 fonts, you can't proceed with Knuth-style fonts, since there are no Type 1 versions of the [mf-extra](ctanpkg:cm-mf-extra-bold) set. There are, however, Type 1 distributions of the EC fonts, so you can switch to EC and use them; alternatives are discussed in [8-bit Type 1 fonts](/5_fichiers/fontes/fontes_t1_8bits).

Of course, commercial fixed-width fonts (even the default `Courier`) almost always come with a bold variant, so that's not a problem. Furthermore [PSNFSS](/5_fichiers/fontes/utiliser_des_fontes_adobe_t1_avec_tex) will usually provide "faked small caps fonts, and has no compunctions about providing them in a bold form. `Courier` is (as we all know, to our cost) freely available; a far more presentable monospace font is `LuxiMono`, which is also freely available (monospace text in the typeset version of this FAQ uses `LuxiMono`, with the metrics and LaTeX support available on the archive.

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