On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:17:36 +0200 wrote Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Rodney K wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to create a document using the helvetica font. However,
> > selecting the helvetica font from the document properties dialog box
> > does not change the font from the default (romans?) to helvetica. How do
> > I do this?
>
> This may be a dumb answer, but are you mixing up screen fonts and
> printer fonts? The fonts you see in LyX have nothing to do with
> the ones you see in the print previewer (which are the ones that
> actually get printed). Hit Ctrl-t to check your PostScript
> output.
While the above is true, it is indeed the case, that
> > selecting the helvetica font from the document properties dialog box
> > does not change the font from the default (romans?) to helvetica.
It loads the package helvetica.sty this package just uses helvetica instead
of computer-modern-sans-serif for sans serif.
To change to helvetica as default, you need to put
% Default font is sans serif
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
and optional:
% change this also in Formulas:
\renewcommand{\textrm}{\textsf} % f�r "Text in Math"
% \renewcommand{\mathrm}{\mathsf} % this may be too much
in the LaTeX preamble.
After that, the fonts in LyX are still the same, but in dvi and ps are
sans-serif.
Actually, I consider the helvetica option from the document properties
dialog box to be misleading and I wished it would go.
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