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0120 <h2 class="chapter">4 Fonts</h2>
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0125 <p>LaTeX comes with powerful font capacities.  For one thing, its New
0126 Font Selection Scheme allows you to work easily with the font families
0127 in your document (for instance, see&nbsp;<a href="Font-styles.html#Font-styles">Font styles</a>).  And,
0128 LaTeX documents can use most fonts that are available today,
0129 including versions of Times Roman, Helvetica, Courier, etc.  (Note,
0130 though, that many fonts do not have support for mathematics.)
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0132 <p>The first typeface in the TeX world was the Computer Modern family,
0133 developed by Donald Knuth.  It is the default for LaTeX documents and
0134 is still the most widely used.  But changing to another font often only
0135 involves a few commands.  For instance, putting the following in your
0136 preamble gives you a Palatino-like font, which is handsome and more
0137 readable online than many other fonts, while still allowing you to
0138 typeset mathematics.  (This example is from Michael Sharpe,
0139 <a href="http://math.ucsd.edu/~msharpe/RcntFnts.pdf">http://math.ucsd.edu/~msharpe/RcntFnts.pdf</a>.)
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0142 <pre class="example">\usepackage[full]{textcomp}
0143 \usepackage[osf]{newpxtext} % osf for text, not math
0144 \usepackage{cabin} % sans serif
0145 \usepackage[varqu,varl]{inconsolata} % sans serif typewriter
0146 \usepackage[bigdelims,vvarbb]{newpxmath} % bb from STIX
0147 \usepackage[cal=boondoxo]{mathalfa} % mathcal
0148 </pre></div>
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0150 <p>In addition, the <code>xelatex</code> or <code>lualatex</code> engines allow
0151 you to use any fonts on your system that are in OpenType or TrueType
0152 format (see <a href="TeX-engines.html#TeX-engines">TeX engines</a>).
0153 </p>
0154 <p>The LaTeX Font Catalogue <a href="http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/">http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/</a> shows
0155 font sample graphics and copy-and-pasteable source to use many fonts,
0156 including many with support for mathematics.  It aims to cover all Latin
0157 alphabet free fonts available for easy use with LaTeX.
0158 </p>
0159 <p>More information is also available from the TeX Users Group, at
0160 <a href="https://www.tug.org/fonts/">https://www.tug.org/fonts/</a>.
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0163 <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="fontenc-package.html#fontenc-package" accesskey="1">fontenc package</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Encoding of the font.
0164 </td></tr>
0165 <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Font-styles.html#Font-styles" accesskey="2">Font styles</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Select roman, italics, etc.
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0167 <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Font-sizes.html#Font-sizes" accesskey="3">Font sizes</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Select point size.
0168 </td></tr>
0169 <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Low_002dlevel-font-commands.html#Low_002dlevel-font-commands" accesskey="4">Low-level font commands</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Select encoding, family, series, shape.
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