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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Introduction


When LaTeX was young, documents looked quite similar, since there was a precious little choice of fonts. Over time, many new fonts were invented and gained support from LaTeX.

To find the perfect fonts for your documents, visit the LaTeX font catalogue at http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/.

In this chapter, we will see how to choose fonts globally and how to adjust them within the document.

Before we take off, let's take a quick look at basic LaTeX commands for switching between fonts. We keep it very short, as introductory texts usually cover it. Experienced LaTeX users may skip this section.

Basic font commands

Fonts for text have five main attributes:

  • Encoding: We covered this in the previous chapter and concluded that T1 encoding is usually a good choice for common Latin text, which can be activated by the following command:

    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  • Family: This is what we we call sets of fonts of the same origin and the same type. You can switch to a font family using one of these...

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