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Stefan Kottwitz
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Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.
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Using specific font families

We will explore many more TeX fonts that are special in their own way. We will use our \pangram macro from the previous section with the corresponding family command for testing.

Serif fonts

A small line or stroke attached to a larger stroke in a letter or symbol is called a serif. A font regularly using such serifs is called a serif font, or a serif typeface.

The default serif font is called Computer Modern Roman. Latin Modern provides a very similar font, and you already know the Kp-Fonts serif font. Other packages specialize in serif fonts, and we will now look at some of them.

Times Roman

The newtx package defines a Times text font and a matching math font.

It's split into two parts, so they can be used independently, such as when you would like to have a different math font. That's why we load it in this way:

\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{newtxmath}

With \pangram{\rmfamily} and our math formula, we get the following...

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Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.
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