Chapter 3. Adjusting Fonts

This chapter contains recipes that will help you to benefit from the wealth of fonts. We will specifically cover the following:

  • Choosing a document font
  • Locally switching to a different font
  • Importing just a single symbol of a font
  • Writing bold mathematical symbols
  • Getting the sans serif mathematics font
  • Writing double stroke letters as if on a blackboard
  • Enabling the searching and copying of ligatures
  • Suppressing ligatures
  • Adding a contour

Introduction

When LaTeX was young, documents looked quite similar, since there was a precious little choice of fonts. Over time, many new fonts were invented and gained support from LaTeX.

To find the perfect fonts for your documents, visit the LaTeX font catalogue at http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/ ...

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