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How can I use the \D or \iupac{\D} command from chemmacros package in a \paragraph environment? The result I get is a lower case d instead of the D- for the Fischer stereo descriptor. 

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrreprt}  
\usepackage{chemmacros}  

\begin{document}  
\paragraph{\D-Proline}  
\end{document}
Joseph Wright
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    Are you sure, that the font you are using does actually have a bold-face+smallCaps letter D. Try loading package libertine and test again. – Johannes_B Mar 09 '14 at 08:46
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    Welcome to TeX.SX. Please give as a minimal working example which makes it much easier for us to help. Just your documentclass, the paragraph, your macro... – LaRiFaRi Mar 09 '14 at 10:20
  • Ok, thanks, I suppose I am using an inappropriate document class/font to include this type of character in titles/paragraphs... is there a possibility to include the Fischer descriptors anyway or is it best to use another document class or font? – hnina Mar 09 '14 at 11:43
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    As @Johannes_B says, the issue here isn't \D or chemmacros per se, but the fact that your document class is picking a font which doesn't have sanserif bold small caps. The question then is what you want to change: the font, the use of sanserif, ... – Joseph Wright Mar 09 '14 at 11:53
  • BTW, you do know that \paragraph is (a) a command, not an environment and (b) a sectioning command like \section or \chapter, yes? – Joseph Wright Mar 09 '14 at 11:58
  • Alright I'll try using another font, thank you. Sorry for using the wrong description, I know how to use the command. – hnina Mar 09 '14 at 12:08

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As already noted in the comments the “problem” is that you don't use a font with bold sans serif small caps. Indeed, your example produces in the log file

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/bx/sc' undefined

You have a few choices to circumvent the issue:

  • use a font that has bold face sans serif small caps (such as Linux Biolinum, the accompanying sans serif to Linux Libertine, for example)

    \documentclass[a4paper]{scrreprt}  
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine} % <<<<

\usepackage{chemmacros}  

\begin{document}  
\paragraph{\iupac{\D-Proline}}  
\end{document}

  • use standard fonts but change the headings fonts from sans serif to serif

    \documentclass[a4paper]{scrreprt}  
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\setkomafont{sectioning}{\bfseries} % <<<<

\usepackage{chemmacros}  

\begin{document}  
\paragraph{\iupac{\D-Proline}}  
\end{document}

  • change the definitions of \D to \L so they don't use small caps any more, e.g. with the relsize package:

    \documentclass[a4paper]{scrreprt}  
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{relsize} % <<<<
\usepackage{chemmacros}  
\RenewChemIUPAC\D{\textsmaller{D}} % <<<<
\RenewChemIUPAC\L{\textsmaller{L}} % <<<<

\begin{document}  
\paragraph{\iupac{\D-Proline}}  
\end{document}
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