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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

Locally switching to a different font


A typographically good document with consistent appearance commonly uses just a few fonts, each one with a purpose. Common font choices are:

  • Serif body text

  • Sans serif for headings

  • Monospaced for source code

Each font family is defined in the preamble, usually implicitly done by packages. There are LaTeX commands for switching between families, shapes, and weight. But what if you would like to additionally use a completely different font, such as a second serif font? This recipe will help to achieve that.

How to do it...

We will take a look at two ways:

  • Defining a command

  • Defining an environment

In each case, we need to know the code for the font. Such code is based on the Karl Berry's naming scheme; you can read about it by typing the texdoc fontname command in the Command Prompt, or at http://texdoc.net/pkg/fontname. You don't really need to study this guide, just take a look at the font's own documentation. For your convenience, here is a selection of frequently...

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