[pdftex] Re: General Command to Change FONTS

Rolf.Niepraschk at ptb.de Rolf.Niepraschk at ptb.de
Thu Jul 22 09:27:48 CEST 2004


"Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren" wrote:

> for plain TeX - no.  you'll have to change, separately, the definitions
> of \rm, \it, \sf, etc.  for LaTeX, using a modern distribution,
> 
> \renewcommand\rmdefault{ptm}
> 
> will change absolutely everything based on the main text format to
> Times. 

A bad solution! This changed only the text font but not the related math 
fonts. Better:

  \usepackage{mathptmx}

maybe in addition

  \usepackage[scaled=0.9]{helvet}

...Rolf
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