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Fonts

• Font packages: avant, bookman, chancery, charter, courier, helvet, newcent, palatino, times, utopia

  The packages only provide means to automagically set font families (i.e. the actual fonts are available whether or not you decide to use a package):

  % ...
  \usepackage{PACKAGE}
  % ...
  \begin{document}
  

  Instead of including one of the packages you can still use the table and the commands below.

• Fonts: This is list is by no means exhaustive.

  Type	Family	Name
  roman	cmr	Computer Modern Roman
  	ccr	Concrete Roman
  	panr	Pandora Roman
  	eur	Euler Roman
  	pbk	Bookman
  	pzc	Zapf Chancery
  	bch	Charter
  	pnc	NewCentury Schoolbook
  	ppl	Palatino
  	ptm	Times
  	put	Utopia
  sans serif	cmss	Computer Modern Sans Serif
  	pss	Pandora Sans
  	pag	AvantGarde/BookmanNewCentury Schoolbook
  	phv	Helvetica/Palatino/Times
  typewriter	cmtt	Computer Modern Typewriter
  	pcr	Bookman/Courier/Palatino/Times/NewCentury Schoolbook
  gothic	ygoth	Gothic
  	yfrak	Fraktur
  	yswab	Schwabacher
  pifonts	pzd	ZapfDingbats
  	psy	Symbol
  	pzc	ZapfChancery
  unknown	eus	Euler Script
  	euf	Euler Fraktur
  	cmdh	Computer Modern Dunhill

• Selecting a font:

  \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{FAMILY}% default cmr
  \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{FAMILY}% default cmss
  \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{FAMILY}% default cmtt
  

• Changing the default font family to Sans Serif:

  \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
  

• The textbf inside texttt problem: With the default typewriter font the following construct will not work:

  \texttt{foo\textbf{BLARG}bar}
  

  Tnsert the following command into the preamble of your document:

  \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr}
  

• Pi fonts:

  % ...
  \usepackage{pifonts}
  % ...
  \begin{document}
  

  See the following for a list of commands:
  • Selecting a pi font (see table above)

    \Pifont{FONT}
    

  • Inserting a single symbol:

    \Pisymbol{FONT}{NUMBER}
    % or
    \ding{NUMBER}
    

  • Filling the remainder of the line:

    \Pifill{FONT}{NUMBER}
    % or
    \dingfille{NUMBER}
    

  • Inserting a whole line:

    \Piline{FONT}{NUMBER}
    % or
    \dingline{NUMBER}
    

  • Create an list environment which starts items with a predefined symbol:

    \begin{Pilist}{FONT}{NUMBER}\end{Pilist}
    % or
    \begin{dinglist}{NUMBER}\end{dinglist}
    

  • Create a list environment which starts a numbered list beginning with the predefined symbol:

    \begin{Piautolist}\end{Piautolist}{FONT}{NUMBER}
    % or
    \begin{dingautolist}{NUMBER}\end{dingautolist}
    

    This list was designed to be used with ZapfDingbats symbols 172, 182, 192 and 202 but should not exceed 10 items.

  The ding commands have the ZapfDingbats font hardcoded into them.

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