revising LaTeX notes on font substitutions

Automatic font selection scheme in LaTeX somethimes is not so good. For example, when series "n" (normal) and "bx" (extra bold) are defined for a font, and an user want "b" (bold), the system uses "n" font, not "bx" font.

Fortunately, the system writes a message to a log, but, unfortunately, the message is lost in the big log. Using grep helps:

$ grep -A 1 Font file.log | grep -A 1 unde
$ grep -A 1 Font Standardanleitung.log | grep -A 1 available
LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `T1/phv/bx/n' in size <12> not available
(Font)              Font shape `T1/phv/b/n' tried instead on input line 64.
LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `T1/phv/bx/n' in size <10> not available
(Font)              Font shape `T1/phv/b/n' tried instead on input line 67.
--
LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `T1/phv/bx/n' in size <9> not available
(Font)              Font shape `T1/phv/b/n' tried instead on input line 188.
--
LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `TS1/phv/bx/n' in size <10> not available
(Font)              Font shape `TS1/phv/b/n' tried instead on input line 867.
LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `T1/phv/bx/sl' in size <10> not available
(Font)              Font shape `T1/phv/b/sl' tried instead on input line 881.

Update

To avoid all that "not available" messages, I used:

\\renewcommand\\bfdefault{b}

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