Font attributes

The commands above should give you sufficient control over fonts. If you don't want to know more at the moment then turn to section 4

Every text font in L^ATEX has five attributes:

encoding

This specifies the order that characters appear in the font. The most common values for the font encoding is OT1.

family

The name for a collection of fonts, usually grouped under a common name by the font foundry. For example, `Adobe Times' and Knuth's `Computer Modern Roman' are font families. There are far too many font families to list them all, but some common ones are:

 

Internal fontname	Fontname	In ljmr1?
cmr	Computer Modern Roman	No
cmss	Computer Modern Sans	No
cmtt	Computer Modern Typewriter	No
cmm	Computer Modern Math Italic	No
cmsy	Computer Modern Math Symbols	No
cmex	Computer Modern Math Extensions	No
ptm	Adobe Times	Yes
phv	Adobe Helvetica	Yes
pcr	Adobe Courier	Yes
pun	Univers	No
ppl	Palatino	Yes
pagk	AvantGarde-Book	Yes
pagd	AvantGarde-Demi	Yes
pbk	Bookman	Yes
put	Utopia	No
pop	Optima	No
pnc	New Century Schoolbook	Yes
pzd	ZapfDingbats	Yes
rpad	Garamond	No

series

How heavy or expanded a font is. For example, `medium weight', `narrow' and `bold extended' are all series. The most common values for the font series are:

m	Medium
b	Bold
bx	Bold extended
sb	Semi-bold
c	Condensed

shape

The form of the letters within a font family. For example, `italic', `oblique' and `upright' are all font shapes. The most common values for the font shape are:

n	Normal (that is `upright' or `roman')
it	Italic
sl	Slanted (or `oblique')
sc	Caps and small caps

size

The design size of the font, for example `10pt'.

These five parameters specify every L^ATEX font, for example:

					Font
OT1	cmr	m	n	10pt	Computer Modern Roman 10pt
OT1	cmss	m	sl	12pt	Computer Modern Sans Oblique 12pt
OML	cmm	m	it	10pt	Computer Modern Math Italic 10pt
T1	ptm	b	it	18pt	Adobe Times Bold Italic 18pt