[comp.text.tex] Change typeface completely?

krf@venus.ral.rpi.edu (Keith R. Fieldhouse) (04/13/90)

What is the accepted, clean way of causing a LaTeX document to consistently
use a Sans Serif font?  Most of the users here are happy with the Roman type
face produced by LaTeX.  One user however strongly prefers a Sans Serif
typeface.  This user is not particularly sophisticated so what I'm looking for
is a simple directive or two that will cause his documents to consistently
use this type of font.

By consistent I mean the the \em directive will use a slanted SS font, 
section headings will be in SS, footnotes will be set in a small SS font
and so on.  I'm aware that this *might* be very ugly but in the interests
of giving this user a chance to decide for himself...

The \sf directive at the beginning of the document will cause the standard
body type to be SS but everything else uses the Roman typeface.  In my
attempts to achieve this goal it appears that I have been lead to hack at
the individual style files which doesn't seem quite right.  I've looked
at lfonts.tex but I'm not sure where to proceed there either.  Has anybody
solved a similar problem?  If so I'd like to hear from you.

					Thanks,
			
						- Keith F.
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