General ⇒ formatting text within tables

[workerbee]

I was wondering if there was a way to define a certain font face and size for text within tables. For instance, the main text is in Times Roman but I would like to put a sans serif font in some tables (preferably something that has the same characteristics as Arial). Is this possible?

[mas]

Have you tried

{\sffamily
\begin{tabular}{....}
...
\end{tabular}
} ?

Regards.

[localghost]

I was wondering if there was a way to define a certain font face and size for text within tables. For instance, the main text is in Times Roman but I would like to put a sans serif font in some tables (preferably something that has the same characteristics as Arial). Is this possible?

The approach of mas goes in the right direction. Usually a tabular environment appears inside a table environment.

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\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \sffamily
%  The table itself
  \caption{Sans serif table}\label{tab:sans-serif}
\end{table}

If you have special ideas of the fonts you want to use, try some font packages.

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\usepackage{mathptmx}          % set main (and math) font to Times
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}    % set sans serif font to Helvetica (Arial like)
\usepackage{luximono}          % set mono spaced font to Luxi

The packages can be found as usual on CTAN.


Best regards
Thorsten¹