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LaTeX Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   LaTeX Beginner's Guide Create visually appealing texts, articles, and books for business and science using LaTeX

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078658
Length 354 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with LaTeX 2. Chapter 2: Formatting Text and Creating Macros FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Designing Pages 4. Chapter 4: Creating Lists 5. Chapter 5: Including Images 6. Chapter 6: Creating Tables 7. Chapter 7: Using Cross-References 8. Chapter 8: Listing Contents and References 9. Chapter 9: Writing Math Formulas 10. Chapter 10: Using Fonts 11. Chapter 11: Developing Large Documents 12. Chapter 12: Enhancing Your Documents Further 13. Chapter 13: Troubleshooting 14. Chapter 14: Using Online Resources 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using specific font families

We will explore many more TeX fonts that are special in their own way. We will use our \pangram macro from the previous section with the corresponding family command for testing.

Serif fonts

A small line or stroke attached to a larger stroke in a letter or symbol is called a serif. A font regularly using such serifs is called a serif font, or a serif typeface.

The default serif font is called Computer Modern Roman. Latin Modern provides a very similar font, and you already know the Kp-Fonts serif font. Other packages specialize in serif fonts, and we will now look at some of them.

Times Roman

The newtx package defines a Times text font and a matching math font.

It's split into two parts, so they can be used independently, such as when you would like to have a different math font. That's why we load it in this way:

\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{newtxmath}

With \pangram{\rmfamily} and our math formula, we get the following...

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