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Changing font styles in LaTeX

10. August 2015 by tom Leave a Comment

I wrote an article about font sizes in LaTeX, which has become a hugely popular post. Other features of a font can be summarized as its style. The font style describes whether a font is with decorations (serif) or without (sans serif) as well as other features of its appreance (bold, italic, etc.). These features … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: bold, font, italic, LaTeX, monospace, sans serif, series, serif, shape, slant, small capitals, style, typewriter

Changing the font size in LaTeX

29. August 2012 by tom 60 Comments

Changing the font size in LaTeX can be done on two levels, either affecting the whole document or parts/elements of it. Using a different font size on a global level will affect all normal-sized text as well as the size of headings, footnotes, etc. By changing the font size locally, however, a single word, a … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: anyfontsize, article, book, extsizes, font, font size, footnotesize, huge, large, LaTeX, moresize, normalsize, report, scriptsize, small, tiny

Latex page, line and font settings

1. March 2012 by tom 17 Comments

I was recently asked to write a three page assignment/case study using the following page, line and font settings: Arial, size 12 1.5 line spacing 2.5cm margin all round Let’s do one by one.   Font type and size Font types are actually a bit of a pain in Latex and so far, I have … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Package, Tips & tricks Tagged: Arial, font, font size, fontspec, geometry, Helvetica, LaTeX, margin, onehalfspacing, setspace, usepackage, XeLaTeX




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