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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

Choosing a font for a document

The default font has the name Computer Modern and is of very good quality. It is actually a whole font family that contains bold, italic, sans-serif, typewriter, and more font versions. All the fonts are well composed to fit together.

If you would like to change the font, use a complete bundle or carefully select font families based on shape and size. That's because, besides giving a good appearance to the document overall, it is important that all font families are compliant to each other when they are used together.

In this recipe, we will take a look at some font sets and recommended combinations.

Getting ready

For the fonts you would like to use, their files should already be installed on your TeX system. If not already present, install them. Use the package manager of your LaTeX distribution, such as the MiKTeX package manager in case of MiKTeX on Windows, or the TeX Live manager tool called tlmgr.

In case you have TeX Live installed, it offers the possibility...

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