Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Changing Math Fonts

[youngprof]

Hi,

I'm a young professor working on my first set of lecture notes for a class I'm teaching. For the formatting, I want to have two sorts of sections for the book: one for example problems and one for example solutions. To differentiate the two, I'd like to be able to put one into sans-serif fonts (or Euler fonts if that turns out easier but I'd prefer sans-serif). I know how to change the default text font back and forth but I'd like to have an easy way to change the math font too using a command in my environment, rather than having to put \mathsf{...} in every formula. Is there a good way to do this?

YP

[frabjous]

If you were OK with using XeLaTeX, the mathspec package could make this easy. (Read the documentation.)

I don't know offhand of a very easy way to do it with regular latex or pdflatex, but perhaps someone else will.

[Montag]

As a student, I can only say: Please don't do this, please don't do this. Please.
In fact, I've never seen any document formatted like you described it.

[shadgrind]

You could try the font-change package. I've never used it, so I have no idea how it works.

[rf]

I'm a young professor working on my first set of lecture notes for a class I'm teaching. For the formatting, I want to have two sorts of sections for the book: one for example problems and one for example solutions. To differentiate the two, I'd like to be able to put one into sans-serif fonts (or Euler fonts if that turns out easier but I'd prefer sans-serif). I know how to change the default text font back and forth but I'd like to have an easy way to change the math font too using a command in my environment, rather than having to put \mathsf{...} in every formula. Is there a good way to do this?

the sansmath package (on ctan) might help -- see
docs at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/con ... nsmath.pdf

(it has a rather limited range of fonts, so _do_
read the docs first.)

[rf]

You could try the font-change package. I've never used it, so I have no idea how it works.

it's a plain tex package, and i thought it didn't
deal with maths. (i wrote the catalogue entry, but
that was some time ago, and i only scanned the docs
beforehand.)