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           Linotype Meridien font pack for LaTeX
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                                                  2003-08-07
                                              Walter Schmidt
                                      <w-a-schmidt@arcor.de>

The LaTeX family name of Linotype's font family Meridien is
"lmd".  Thus, the command

  \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{lmd}

makes LaTeX use it as the default roman font family.

|  Notice that Meridien is supported with T1 (european) and
|  TS1 (textcompanion) encoding only, so you should issue
|  the commands
|
|    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
|    \usepackage{textcomp}
|
|  in the document preamble.  The obsolete OT1 encoding,
|  which is still the default with LaTeX, is _not_
|  supported.

Because of its larger x-height, Meridien needs a somewhat
enlarged line spacing, as compared with Computer Modern.
The exact value depends on the line width, but 3% ... 5%
or so is required at least:
  

Math tyesetting:
There are no math fonts that were particularly desiged to 
blend woth meridien, but Lucida New Math (from Y&Y's Lucida 
bright collection) goes well with Meridien, provided that it
is scaled appropriately:

  \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{lmd}
  \linespread{1.03}
  \usepackage[expert]{lucbmath}
  \def\DeclareLucidaFontShape#1#2#3#4#5#6{%
    \DeclareFontShape{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{<->s*[.84]#5}{#6}}



NFSS classification:

family  series  shape(s)  PostScript-Name
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lmd     m       n, it     MeridienLT-Roman,  
                          MeridienLT-Italic
lmd     mb      n, it     MeridienLT-Medium,
                          MeridienLT-MediumItalic
lmd     b       n, it     MeridienLT-Bold,
                          MeridienLT-BoldItalic

Supported encodings:  T1, TS1.  The TS1 character set is
only partally available; notice that the Euro symbol
\texteuro is provided.


== finis
