Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ the courier font

[allevo]

hi!!!
i wrote this:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{courier}

\begin{document}
\fontfamily{courier}\selectfont ciao!!S

\end{document}

but the text isn't in Courier. where am i wrog?!?

[localghost]

It's caused by the wrong handling.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{courier}

\begin{document}
\texttt{ciao!!S}

\ttfamily
ciao!!S
\normalfont

\end{document}

The switches are for longer text passages.

Since the courier font is looking really ugly to me, I recommend to use the luximono font for this type face.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[allevo]

and how can i use this font?!?! http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/seriffonts.html

[localghost]

You should tell us exactly which one from this long list you want to use.

[allevo]

for example: Bera Sans ?!?!
are there an universal commander that i can use to wrote in a font?!?
for example

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\usefont{Bera Sans}text in bera sans

[frabjous]

Try this:

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[scaled]{berasans}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}  

[localghost]

Using bera gives you access to all families, series and shapes of that font. Use the well known font commands to get what you want.

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\textsf{Text in Bera sans}

[allevo]

ops.. thank!!
but is there a universal command to use all fonts?!?! for example:

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\usefont{fontname} text in fontname

?!?!

[localghost]

I can't see the problem. Just include this font package and you will have your text in Bera.

[frabjous]

I think allevo wants to be able to switch fonts mid-document, or only make selected text appear in that font.