Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Angus> I've noticed one small peculiarity with the latex beamer
> class. Angus> (For those that don't know it, it's a *fantastic*
> class with Angus> which to create pdf presentations. See
> Angus> http://latex-beamer.sf.net)
>
> Angus> It uses a nice, sans serif font by default, but I find that
> Angus> \mathrm{foo} results in foo being typeset with a serifed
> font. Angus> Ditto with \textrm. See attached test case.
>
> What's the problem? The default font is sans-serif, which is
> different from roman. You get what you ask for. You should not
> assume that roman is always the default font. The same applies to
> foilTeX, BTW.
Shrug. I expect a class that redefines the default font to also
redefine the default elsewhere too. Is that so unreasonable? Of
course I can define a math macro
\newcommand{\mathtext}[1]{\mathsf{#1}}
and use it to separate markup from input, but is that really what I'm
expected to do here?
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Angus
