LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – emphasizing on a sans-serif font

We shall write our complete document using a sans-serif font. As we did not yet see how emphasizing without serifs looks, we will try that:

1. Take our "Hello world!" example and modify it this way:

   \documentclass{article}
   \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
   \begin{document}
   \emph{Hello world!}
   \end{document}

2. Typeset. LaTeX will print out a warning:

   LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/it' in size <10> not available

   (Font) Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/sl' tried instead on input line 4.

3. Check the output:
   

What just happened?

The macro \familydefault stands for the default font family which shall be used ...