LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – switching to sans-serif and to typewriter fonts

Imagine that we start to write an article about LaTeX's Internet resources. To get a clearly readable heading, we shall use a font without frills. The body text will contain a web address; we choose a typewriter font to stress it:

1. Create a LaTeX document with the following code:

   \documentclass{article}
   \begin{document}
   \section{\textsf{\LaTeX\ resources on the internet}}
   The best place for downloading LaTeX related software is CTAN.
   Its address is \texttt{http://www.ctan.org}.
   \end{document}

2. Typeset and look at the result:
   

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