Text Formatting ⇒ one letter in arial in textbf

[itb1000]

Hi,
I write my text in bf style and would like to some letter or part of the text in arial font.
How can I do?
Tahnks,
Thierry

[phi]

This uses Helvetica, not Arial (Helvetica is better anyway):

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
a{\fontsize{9pt}{0pt}\usefont{T1}{phv}{m}{n}b}c
\end{document}

Note that you have to alter the font size to align the x heights.

[itb1000]

Hi,
Thanks for your help. I agree that Heltevita is nicer.
I tried the sequence but it does not work out.
I got an error message and the pdf file is not created.
I would like to get the "A" in Helvetica in the following sentence, the remaining text is the textbf style:
The spectrum of bob is shown in figure 1A.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Thierry

[phi]

If my example doesn't compile, then Helvetica is not installed. This is odd, since it should be available on even the most basic TeX system. What error message do you get?

[itb1000]

I get the following message:

PDFLaTeX failed to create a pdf file
For possible explanations start the command from the command prompt...

Thierry