{sans-serif} fonts are those that do not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes.
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Is there a sans-serif font that appears different for I (capital i) and l (small L)?
Is there a sans-serif font that appears different for I and l? If we are not familiar with "Kim Jong Il", we might spell his name as Kim Jong Two or other incorrect ones.
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Simplest way to typeset entire document in sans serif (Helvetica)
How do I typeset an entire document in Helvetica/sans serif without littering the document with font changes for every heading/paragraph, etc.? Like this but with the paragraphs all in Helvetica.
For ...
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\bfseries is to \textbf as WHAT is to \textsf
Neither of \sfseries nor \sfshape seem to work. So what is the command I'm looking for to change the current group to sans serif? \bfseries, \scshape and \itshape work, but I can't find the sans serif ...
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Is \mathrm really preferable to \text? [duplicate]
It seems to be the de facto standard to use \mathrm for upright letter notation in math mode as opposed to \text. Would it not be better to use \text in general?
One particular problem I am thinking ...
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traditional German sans-serif (and serif) blackboard-bold symbols
What I have always been looking for in LaTeX were traditional German sans-serif blackboard-bold letters, mainly for: N (natural numbers), Z (integers), Q (rational numbers), R (reals), C (complex ...
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Book cover fonts
I am typesetting my first book. I am using Computer Modern for the font. I am trying to decide which font to use for the covers/dust jacket.
I took a look at a number of similarly formatted books, ...
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Uneven spacing around a hyphen in sans-serif?
I am used to writing the names of categories in sans-serif. Thus, for the category of R-modules, I have been using
$R\textrm{-}\textsf{Mod}$
However, the kerning/spacing this produces has never ...
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Microtype warning with lmodern package and KOMA-script
With a simple document
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test test test}
...
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Space between the two slashes in “http://” too big
I'm using a lot of links with http:// in my document, but the two slashes are too much separated, I'd like them to be more near each other. How do I do this, in a neat way?
I'm using a sans-serif ...
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votes
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Style question: serif or sans fonts in figure and chart text?
Question for you design-y types:
I like to use a serif font for all my text (title, headings, body). What I'd like to know is whether you think that I should go with a serif or sans serif for text in ...
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When to use serif and when to use sans serif font family
This is not a technical question. However as the FAQs say this place is about
people who love to create well-structured and beautifully typeset documents
I take my shot.
I am often confused ...
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Why does \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} take over?
I want to produce a document with non-serif type. I also want to include Cyrillic characters. These two aims seem to be mutually exclusive. When I comment out \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}, the document ...
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Bold, italic math (\bm) and sansmath
I'm typesetting both text and math in Latin Modern, except for the figures, where I would like to use a sans serif font for both text and math.
I need to follow the ISO recommendations for math ...
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The font of operator names
What is the correct way of having all operator names be set in, say, sans serif? Saying
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\makeatletter
\def\operator@font{\sf}
\makeatother
...
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Does latin modern sans serif have a weird kerning, or is there a problem on my side?
I don't know whether it's my brain, or my pdf reader, or a missing font on my system. I know I'm asking for Latin Modern, Sans Serif because it's for a presentation, and the result looks weird:
I ...
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Typeset mathematical symbols also in sans serif font?
For creating the graphics for my thesis (function graphs, flow charts, line art sketches) I've chosen to use the sans serif font by
\renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}
However when I use ...
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Default sans-serif for T1
When using \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, my understanding was that the fonts were pretty much the same as the defaults, except that they carried native accentuated characters. Now, I use sans-serif in my ...
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How to Recover my Bold SF Fonts
I was inspired by this link to try EulerVM with tgpagella packages:
How do I set LaTeX to use AMS Euler for text and maths?
But when this is used with \documentclass{scrbook}, it seems that my ...
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Bold sans-serif font in LaTeX
How can one format a chapter or section heading in bold using a sans-serif font? I tried \textsf{\textbf{bold sans-serif text}}, but it does not seem to work. Any idea?
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\textbf and \bf within Sans Serif
I'm using \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} so that my entire document is in sans serif, but I'm getting peculiar results with regards to formatting.
I'm a rather sparse LaTeX user, but in ...
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How to typeset some text including math content in sans serif
I have a blurb of text in an external macro \SomeText, which I want to typeset in sans serif. However, \sffamily\SomeText does not change the math font and \sffamily\mathsf{\SomeText} does not work, ...
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How do I change a font document wide?
How do I change a font for a latex document?
I am using the \documentclass{article}, which sets the document in a serif font.
I also declared \usepacke{helvet}, since thats the font I would like to ...
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PGF/TikZ and Sans Serif Fonts
I have a TikZ/PGF file created directly by a graphing package of the form \begin{tikzpicture}{dimensions} ... \end{tikzpicture}. The file uses \pgftext[...]{\selectfont{Some text here or ...
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cfr-lm & sans serif small caps
How can I have the sans serif small caps with this fonts?
\documentclass{book}
% Latin Modern with oldstyle digits
\usepackage[%
rm={oldstyle,proportional},%
sf={oldstyle,proportional},%
...
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votes
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How do I switch all fonts in a document to a sans-serif family? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Simplest way to typeset entire document in sans serif (Helvetica)
I use document class article and included
\usepackage{helvet}
I now begin my document with
...
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Bold , italic (and sans-serif) math symbols
I would like to implement the suggestions in the TUGboat 30:3, 2009 about the upright/italic and bold/normal in scalars, vectors and tensors. All this is about math.
I use this font:
...
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Name of default “sffamily” font
I'm using LaTeX (texlive) in Debian Wheezy. How can I determine which font is specified by \sffamily?
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The right way to get sans-serif math?
I notice that beamer has everything in sans-serif by default, including math. In a regular article, simply using \sffamily doesn't cause math to be set in sans-serif. Using ...
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votes
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Sans serif font with distinguished capital I for math.
I work a lot with matrix algebra. I also give a lot of presentations. It'd be nice to have a good sans serif font to use for both. Currently, my choice is the bitstream vera sans with math package: ...
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votes
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Use sans-serif in a verbatim environment?
What is the right way get fancyvrb’s verbatim environment (or any other variation) to use \textsf as the font?
I can do it with:
\begin{Verbatim}[commandchars=\\\{\}]
\textsf{Here’s some textsf.}
...
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votes
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sans serif math in tables and siunitx
I want to know the easiest way to ensure that the content inside a tabular, including siunitx columns is set using a/the sans serif math font. The normal document is set in serif font.
This approach ...
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Change math font for figures only (including TikZ environments within figures)
In my document, I want the main text to be in the times font, and the math to be in the txfonts font. This I can do with the help of the txfonts package. However, I want everything that shows up in my ...
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votes
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How can I tell lstlisting to use sans-serif when escaping to math mode?
Title says it all, an example follows:
\lstset{
mathescape=true,
basicstyle = \sffamily
}
\begin{lstlisting}
func($x_0$)
\end{lstlisting}
Where and how can I set the math font used ...
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Missing symbols in the sansmath package
When using the sansmath package with the Arev font, symbols like + and = fail to appear in the compiled document.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fouriernc} % use the Arev font
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Cyrillic sans font in beamer (LyX)
I am trying to use Cyrillic sans-serif font in a beamer presentation. I make it using LyX 2.0.0.
The code produced by LyX (exported as plain LaTeX) is
%% LyX 2.0.0 created this file. For more info, ...
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Identity of LaTeX default sans serif font
What the the default sans serif font in LaTeX? If it is a clone what is it based upon?
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A better way to achieve sans-serif typeface in figure and table environments
For some of my style files, I would like to have a sans-serif typeface within my figures. I have code which seems to be working,
\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{figure}[1][\fps@figure]{
...
4
votes
1answer
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Sans serif fonts for section titles in ConTeXt
In LaTeX, some document classes specify sans serif fonts for chapter and section titles, and serif fonts for the main text of a document. what is the proper way to achieve this in ConTeXt? I have code ...
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votes
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Small caps with CMSS?
How can I use small caps with the CMSS font?
When trying to set fontshape to "sc" I get a serif font or just no change (if I use fonthshapealone):
result of example below:
...
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Which sans serif and monospace fonts suit Century Schoolbook?
I find the Century Schoolbook family very legible for online documentation. However, I am unsure what sans serif (for typesetting, e.g., LaTeX package names) and monospace (for typesetting code) ...
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sans serif font with siunitx
My students found this problem, which I could not solve. The percent is always printed in the serif font.
Here is a test code:
\documentclass[]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
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votes
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sans math version of Latin Modern
I am trying to get a sans math version of the lmodern family using \DeclareMathVersion but my approach does not work and I do not see why. But I have to admit that I am not sure whether I use the ...
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votes
1answer
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Does boldface sans-serif not work?
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\nptime}{\ensuremath{\sf NP}}
\newcommand{\bnptime}{\ensuremath{\sf\bf NP}}
\begin{document}
\nptime\\
\bnptime
\end{document}
I'm trying to make a macro to ...
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MikTex 2.9 64-bit not loading sans serif font for moderncv
I just got a new computer and installed MikTex 2.9 for Windows7 64-bit.
When I compiled my resume for the first time (moderncv, theme casual), it compiled in roman vs. sans serif fonts. I did not ...
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Do mathdesign sans serif and monospaced fonts “fake” small caps?
The manual for mathdesign explains how to ensure "true" small caps are used for the main type family selected as an option, but it says nothing about whether the small caps used in other fonts are ...
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Is there a bold italic \sigma and a sans serif bold italic \sigma?
And they look differently?
I'm trying to typeset iso conform (vectors bold italic and tensors sans serif bold italic).
Mechanical stress $\sigma$ is a tensor, but I also want to typeset the normal ...
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upright sans serif fonts in mathematics (computer modern)
How to prepare document with Computer Modern fonts (using MikTeX 2.9) with upright sans serif fonts. Has anybody got an idea how to do it?
I've tried sfmath package, but it produces sans serif ...
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Tikz vertical alignement text and shape
I want to vertically align sans serif font with a rectangle. The following code show the problem:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary[positioning]
...
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How to tweak the font of page number in the whole document?
First fancyhdr is loaded to change the font of page number.
The following commands are used to change the font to sans serif:
\fancyhead[LO]{ \sffamily \thepage }
\fancyhead[RE]{ \sffamily \thepage ...
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Sans serif math with corrected spacing
With the sfmath package I find that there is too little space between some symbols. In an expression like $n_1$ for instance the subscript is too close to the base. Although the space between the ...
