## LaTeX forum ⇒ Text Formatting ⇒ math text in caption in sf font - how to do it?

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loukote
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### math text in caption in sf font - how to do it?

Hi all.

I have captions in sf font. In some, there is some math text. But the math text renders the same way as all math texts in equations.

Is there a way to tell the math texts that are inside a caption to render in mathsf in an automatic way?

Thanks

localghost
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I think there is a better way to set captions optically apart from the normal text.
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}

This looks nice and wouldn't cause any issues with math expressions in captions.

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Keta
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I've been willing to use sans-serifs captions for long time, well more than willing to use, kind of willing to know how to do it. If I recall correctly, I read somewhere that once math fonts are declared they're fixed for the rest of the document. I don't know it for sure, but I'm sure there are people in here who can tell us easily if this is correct or not.

If that's true, one solution could be to write code which first writes the caption to an external file, then processes that file with the desired options, and finally includes the output as a pdf or eps. Kind of how the examples where created in The LaTeX Companion book -- if I understood well the making process. I'm far from knowing how to do that, but there are real experts around here who might give us some useful hints.

phi
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It is possible, but very involved, to change the family automatically according to the text font family.
It is easier to declare a new math version. Here is an example using the Computer Modern fonts. Note that you get a warning because the sans-serif font doesn't use the correct encoding. Thus it is better to use the CM-Bright fonts. The following code shows both possibilities:
\documentclass{article} \DeclareMathVersion{sans}\SetSymbolFont{operators}{sans}{OT1}{cmss}{m}{n}\SetSymbolFont{letters}{sans}{OT1}{cmss}{m}{sl}\SetMathAlphabet\mathbf{sans}{OT1}{cmss}{bx}{n}\SetMathAlphabet\mathsf{sans}{OT1}{cmss}{m}{n}\SetMathAlphabet\mathit{sans}{OT1}{cmss}{m}{sl} \DeclareMathVersion{sansbright}\SetSymbolFont{operators}{sansbright}{OT1}{cmbr}{m}{n}\SetSymbolFont{letters}{sansbright}{OML}{cmbrm}{m}{it}\SetSymbolFont{symbols}{sansbright}{OMS}{cmbrs}{m}{n}\SetMathAlphabet\mathbf{sansbright}{OT1}{cmbr}{bx}{n}\SetMathAlphabet\mathsf{sansbright}{OT1}{cmbr}{m}{n}\SetMathAlphabet\mathit{sansbright}{OT1}{cmbr}{m}{it}\SetMathAlphabet\mathtt{sansbright}{OT1}{cmtl}{m}{n} \begin{document}\tableofcontents\section{\sffamily\mathversion{sans}abc $a^2 + b^2 = c^2 \sum \prod \int$}\section{\sffamily\mathversion{sansbright}abc $a^2 + b^2 = c^2 \sum \prod \int$}\end{document}

Keta
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That was awesome phi, love it! I won't use it right now, but I'll save this thread as reference for the future. Thanks!

sommerfee
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An alternative solution:

\documentclass{article}\usepackage{caption,sansmath}\DeclareCaptionFont{sansmath}{\sansmath}\captionsetup{textfont={sf,sansmath}} \begin{document}\begin{figure}\caption{Some text and a formular: $E = mc^2$}\end{figure}\end{document}

Regards,
Axel

loukote
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sommerfee wrote:An alternative solution:
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Regards,
Axel

Axel, this is not an alternative solution. This is THE solution. Thanks a lot.
Ondra