[texhax] latex default output font

[William Adams]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 4:43 AM, lorenzo cavini wrote:

> I am relatively new to TeX so I am not aware of many of its features
> yet.
> I would like to use a sans serif font for the whole document  
> instead of
> roman. As this would be the choice for the whole text in the document,
> the command
>
> \sftext{...}
>
> doesn't seem to me to be the best solution...
>
> Is there a way to set the default font to sans serif?

\renewcommand\rmdefault{\sfdefault}

will work for the text.

Check the docs of your system for the PSNFSS and related references.

To do math as well, get the nifty package ``sansmath.sty'' from CTAN.

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications



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