usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (10/19/89)
How does one go about changing the default font style used by TeX and or LaTeX? We would like to use the Helvetica font, resident in the Apple LaserWriter. We would like to use it for the math, formula, equation, etc., styles too. John Mireley
langdon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Bruce Langdon) (10/19/89)
In article <5030@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: > > How does one go about changing the default font style used by > TeX and or LaTeX? We would like to use the Helvetica font, resident > in the Apple LaserWriter. We would like to use it for the math, > formula, equation, etc., styles too. For some reason that is alien to my eye, people here do that. Serifs are there to enhance readability, according to some people. But today my viewgraphs with their beautiful TeX mathematics were transmogrified into tech-info-official Helvetica. Goodbye, all that is known about readable and elegant math typesetting. Your tax dollars at work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Langdon L-472 langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov Physics Department 14363%mfe.mfenet@nmfecc.llnl.gov Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory langdon@ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov Livermore, CA 94550 (415) 422-5444 UUCP: ..{qantel,ucdavis,pyramid,harvard,topaz}!lll-lcc!langdon
chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) (10/19/89)
>In article <5030@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: >>How does one go about changing the default font style used by >>TeX and or LaTeX? We would like to use the Helvetica font, resident >>in the Apple LaserWriter. We would like to use it for the math, >>formula, equation, etc., styles too. In article <2631@lll-lcc.UUCP> langdon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Bruce Langdon) writes: >For some reason that is alien to my eye, people here do that. Serifs >are there to enhance readability, according to some people. They are indeed. Readability is largely a matter of familiarity. Helvetica is traditionally used only for `headlines', with a serifed font (such as Times or Modern) for running text. Many people (including myself) find running Helvetica text overly difficult to read---and as with netnews, if the form is sufficiently bad in comparison to the apparent content, I simply stop reading. If you set the main body of your text in Helvetica, you may turn off reviewers, etc. If the goal is `resident in the Apple LaserWriter', I say you would be better off with Times-Roman. (Be sure to use at least 11 point if the paper is going to be photocopied.) -- `They were supposed to be green.' In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) (10/19/89)
In article <20257@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes: > They are indeed. Readability is largely a matter of familiarity. > > If you set the main body of your text in Helvetica, you may turn off > reviewers, etc. If the goal is `resident in the Apple LaserWriter', > I say you would be better off with Times-Roman. (Be sure to use at > least 11 point if the paper is going to be photocopied.) > -- > `They were supposed to be green.' > In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) > Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris True enough, unless you happen to be submitting a paper to a European journal (Sans Serif typefaces are *much* more popular in Europe than in the U.S.), or want to make it look like it came from CMU :-)... -- Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.com> "Tobacco is the only drug in America that will kill you if it's taken as directed." --Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General