When using textsc, LaTeX issues warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/bx/sc' undefined

Question

I started to write my CV in LaTeX. My document begins as
documentclass[a4paper]{amsart}
usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
usepackage[finnish]{babel}
begin{document}
begin{center}
{large textbf{textsc{ANSIOLUETTELO}}}
end{center}
end{document}

But pdfTeX for Mac says:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
....
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/bx/sc' undefined
(Font)              using `OT1/cmr/bx/n' instead on input line 6.

[1{/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
[2] (./ansioluettelomod.aux)

What am I doing wrong?

Alain Matthes · Accepted Answer

You can try

documentclass[a4paper]{amsart}
usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}   
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}   
usepackage[finnish]{babel}
begin{document}
begin{center}
{large textbf{textsc{ANSIOLUETTELO}}}

textbf{textsc{Ansioluettelo}}
end{center}
end{document}

Boris · Answer

You did nothing wrong. TeX tells you that it does not have Small Caps bold Computer Modern font, so it switches to bold normal font. This is a design decision by font author (Knuth) not to have this variant; you may try to find fonts that have bold small caps (not that I know of such) or to fake the effect using uppercase.

Actually your line is already in uppercase, so I wonder whether you really need small caps: usually people use small caps with lowercase letters, with textsc{MakeLowercase{...}}

Actually your line is already in uppercase, so I wonder whether you really need small caps: usually people use small caps with lowercase letters, with textsc{MakeLowercase{...}}

lockstep · Answer

The libertine font provides bold small caps. Abstaining from capital letters in the argument of textsc doesn't hurt, either. ;-)

documentclass{article}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine}

begin{document}

Large

textbf{textsc{Ansioluettelo}}% right

textbf{textsc{ANSIOLUETTELO}}% wrong

end{document}

user2478 · Answer

use the Kepler fonts they have bold small caps:

documentclass[a4paper]{amsart}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{kpfonts}
usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
usepackage[finnish]{babel}
begin{document}

{large textbf{textsc{ANSIOLUETTELO}}}

end{document}

xofon · Answer

If you do not want to change the fonts scheme, you can do

DeclareFontShape{OT1}{cmr}{bx}{sc}{<-> cmbcsc10}{}

When using textsc, LaTeX issues warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/bx/sc' undefined

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