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The commands above should give you sufficient control over fonts. If
you don't want to know more at the moment then turn to section
4
Every text font in LATEX has five attributes:
- encoding
- This specifies the order that characters appear in the
font. The most common values for the font encoding is OT1.
- family
- The name for a collection of fonts, usually grouped under
a common name by the font foundry. For example, `Adobe Times' and
Knuth's `Computer Modern Roman' are font families.
There are far too many font families to list them all, but some common
ones are:
|
Internal fontname |
Fontname |
In ljmr1? |
|
cmr |
Computer Modern Roman |
No |
|
cmss |
Computer Modern Sans |
No |
|
cmtt |
Computer Modern Typewriter |
No |
|
cmm |
Computer Modern Math Italic |
No |
|
cmsy |
Computer Modern Math Symbols |
No |
|
cmex |
Computer Modern Math Extensions |
No |
|
ptm |
Adobe Times |
Yes |
|
phv |
Adobe Helvetica |
Yes |
|
pcr |
Adobe Courier |
Yes |
|
pun |
Univers |
No |
|
ppl |
Palatino |
Yes |
|
pagk |
AvantGarde-Book |
Yes |
|
pagd |
AvantGarde-Demi |
Yes |
|
pbk |
Bookman |
Yes |
|
put |
Utopia |
No |
|
pop |
Optima |
No |
|
pnc |
New Century Schoolbook |
Yes |
|
pzd |
ZapfDingbats |
Yes |
|
rpad |
Garamond |
No |
- series
- How heavy or expanded a font is. For example, `medium
weight', `narrow' and `bold extended' are all series.
The most common values for the font series are:
|
m |
Medium |
|
b |
Bold |
|
bx |
Bold extended |
|
sb |
Semi-bold |
|
c |
Condensed |
- shape
- The form of the letters within a font family. For
example, `italic', `oblique' and `upright' are all font shapes.
The most common values for the font shape are:
|
n |
Normal (that is `upright' or `roman') |
|
it |
Italic |
|
sl |
Slanted (or `oblique') |
|
sc |
Caps and small caps |
- size
- The design size of the font, for example `10pt'.
These five parameters specify every LATEX font,
for example:
| |
Font |
| OT1 |
cmr |
m |
n |
10pt |
Computer Modern Roman 10pt |
| OT1 |
cmss |
m |
sl |
12pt |
Computer Modern Sans Oblique 12pt |
| OML |
cmm |
m |
it |
10pt |
Computer Modern Math Italic 10pt |
| T1 |
ptm |
b |
it |
18pt |
Adobe Times Bold Italic 18pt |
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