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A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Fonts (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Fonts (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Fonts (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Emphasis.html" rel="up" title="Emphasis"> <link href="Smallcaps.html" rel="prev" title="Smallcaps"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="Fonts"> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="Smallcaps.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@sc</code>{<var>text</var>}: The Small Caps Font</a>, Up: <a href="Emphasis.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Emphasizing Text</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Fonts-for-Printing"></span><h4 class="subsection">6.2.3 Fonts for Printing</h4> <span id="index-Fonts-for-printing"></span> <span id="index-fonttextsize"></span> <span id="index-Font-size_002c-reducing"></span> <span id="index-Reducing-font-size"></span> <span id="index-Smaller-fonts"></span> <p>Texinfo provides one command to change the size of the main body font in the TeX output for a document: <code>@fonttextsize</code>. It has no effect in other output. It takes a single argument on the remainder of the line, which must be either ‘<samp>10</samp>’ or ‘<samp>11</samp>’. For example: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@fonttextsize 10 </pre></div> <span id="index-Printing-cost_002c-reducing"></span> <p>The effect is to reduce the body font to a 10pt size (the default is 11pt). Fonts for other elements, such as sections and chapters, are reduced accordingly. This should only be used in conjunction with <code>@smallbook</code> (see <a href="_0040smallbook.html"><code>@smallbook</code>: Printing “Small” Books</a>) or similar, since 10pt fonts on standard paper (8.5x11 or A4) are too small. One reason to use this command is to save pages, and hence printing cost, for physical books. </p> <p>Texinfo does not at present have commands to switch the font family to use, or more general size-changing commands. </p> <p>Texinfo also provides a number of font commands that specify font changes in the printed manual and (where possible) in the HTML output. They have no effect in Info. All the commands apply to a following argument surrounded by braces. </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dt id='index-b-_0028bold-font_0029'><span><code>@b</code><a href='#index-b-_0028bold-font_0029' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-Bold-font"></span> <p>selects <b>bold</b> face; </p> </dd> <dt id='index-i-_0028italic-font_0029'><span><code>@i</code><a href='#index-i-_0028italic-font_0029' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-Italic-font"></span> <p>selects an <i>italic</i> font; </p> </dd> <dt id='index-r-_0028roman-font_0029'><span><code>@r</code><a href='#index-r-_0028roman-font_0029' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-Roman-font"></span> <span id="index-Default-font"></span> <p>selects a <span class="roman">roman</span> font, which is the usual font in which text is printed. It may or may not be seriffed. </p> </dd> <dt id='index-sansserif-_0028sans-serif-font_0029'><span><code>@sansserif</code><a href='#index-sansserif-_0028sans-serif-font_0029' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-Sans-serif-font"></span> <p>selects a <span class="sansserif">sans serif</span> font; </p> </dd> <dt id='index-slanted-_0028slanted-font_0029'><span><code>@slanted</code><a href='#index-slanted-_0028slanted-font_0029' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-Slanted-font"></span> <span id="index-Oblique-font"></span> <p>selects a <i>slanted</i> font; </p> </dd> <dt id='index-t-_0028typewriter-font_0029'><span><code>@t</code><a href='#index-t-_0028typewriter-font_0029' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-Monospace-font"></span> <span id="index-Fixed_002dwidth-font"></span> <span id="index-Typewriter-font"></span> <p>selects the <tt>fixed-width</tt>, typewriter-style font used by <code>@code</code>; </p> </dd> </dl> <p>(The commands with longer names were invented much later than the others, at which time it did not seem desirable to use very short names for such infrequently needed features.) </p> <span id="index-_003clineannotation_003e-DocBook-tag"></span> <p>The <code>@r</code> command can be useful in example-like environments, to write comments in the standard roman font instead of the fixed-width font. This looks better in printed output, and produces a <code><lineannotation></code> tag in DocBook output. </p> <p>For example, </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@lisp (+ 2 2) ; @r{Add two plus two.} @end lisp </pre></div> <p>produces </p> <div class="example lisp"> <pre class="lisp">(+ 2 2) ; <span class="roman">Add two plus two.</span> </pre></div> <p>The <code>@t</code> command can occasionally be useful to produce output in a typewriter font where that is supported (e.g., HTML and PDF), but no distinction is needed in Info or plain text: <code>@t{foo}</code> produces <tt>foo</tt>, cf. <code>@code{foo}</code> producing <code>foo</code>. </p> <p>In general, the other font commands are unlikely to be useful; they exist primarily to make it possible to document the functionality of specific font effects, such as in TeX and related packages. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="Smallcaps.html"><code>@sc</code>{<var>text</var>}: The Small Caps Font</a>, Up: <a href="Emphasis.html">Emphasizing Text</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> </body> </html>