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LaTeX Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   LaTeX Beginner's Guide When there‚Äôs a scientific or technical paper to write, the versatility of LaTeX is very attractive. But where can you learn about the software? The answer is this superb beginner‚Äôs guide, packed with examples and explanations.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199867
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

LaTeX
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with LaTeX FREE CHAPTER 2. Formatting Words, Lines, and Paragraphs 3. Designing Pages 4. Creating Lists 5. Creating Tables and Inserting Pictures 6. Cross-Referencing 7. Listing Content and References 8. Typing Math Formulas 9. Using Fonts 10. Developing Large Documents 11. Enhancing Your Documents Further 12. Troubleshooting 13. Using Online Resources Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – switching the font family


We will modify the previous example using font family switching commands:

  1. Modify the example to get the following code:

    \documentclass{article}
    \begin{document}
    \section{\sffamily\LaTeX\ resources in the internet}
    The best place for downloading LaTeX related software is CTAN.
    Its address is \ttfamily http://www.ctan.org\rmfamily.
    \end{document}
  2. Typeset and compare the output to the previous one; it's the same.

What just happened?

By using the command \sffamily, we switched over to sans serif font. This change has been made inside an argument, so it's valid only there.

We used the command \ttfamily to switch to a typewriter font. The typewriter font will be used from this point onwards. By using \rmfamily, we returned to Roman font.

These commands don't produce any output, but they will affect the following text. We will call such a command a declaration .

Now have a closer look at the section number: it's a digit with serifs, which doesn't match the remaining...

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