XeTeX ⇒ Beamer + Verdana

[remusmp]

Hej,

I would like to use Beamer + Verdana font. I have heard that it is easier to change fonts in xelatex so I did this:

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\usefonttheme{professionalfonts}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Verdana}

Well... After recompiling and viewing the pdf file, it turns out that the font is not Verdana.

I also tried with pdflatex:

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\usefonttheme{professionalfonts}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\pdfmapfile{+winfonts.map}

Every time I wish to change the font I have to add this line:

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\fontfamily{verdana}\selectfont

Is there an easier way? I don't want to add \fontfamily{verdana} all the time. I want Beamer to use it as default font. So I did some \setbeamerfont commands for most of the beamerfonts but I don't know how to change the main text font. I've only managed to change the frametitle, title, slidenumber, author, insitution etc... not the text inside the frame - I don't know its name (normal text? - but it didn't work).

So, the font is alright now but I don't know how to make Beamer use it everywhere.

Please help me either with xelatex or pdflatex Thank you.

R.

[remusmp]

This line solves the issue in pdflatex:

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\renewcommand{\familydefault}{verdana}

[frabjous]

In the future please follow board rules and provide a complete, compiliable, minimal working example.

The \setmainfont command of XeLaTeX/fontspec sets the serif text font, but beamer uses the sans serif font by default.

Two ways to deal with this...

The most obvious way is to set Verdana as your sans font (since, after all, it is a sans serif font):

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\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{Verdana}

Or if you want to be tricky, you can change beamer to use serif fonts instead, but then, oddly, choose Verdana as if it were a serif font:

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\usepackage{fontspec}
\usefonttheme{serif}
\setmainfont{Verdana}

You should not use the fontenc package with XeLaTeX, nor (most likely) the professionalfonts beamer font theme, nor textcomp. However, I recommend putting in:

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\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} 
\usepackage{xunicode} 
\usepackage{xltxtra} 

The first line gives XeLaTeX support TeX conventions like ``---'' for the emdash, and `` for a double left quote, etc. xunicode gives XeLaTeX support for LaTeX character names for unicode characters (accents, international symbols, etc.) xltxtra improves odds and ends for XeLaTeX, but see the documentation, especially if you notice superscripts and subscripts having problems.

[remusmp]

Thank you very much. It worked!

I will paste compilable code in the future - I am sorry for that.

Regards,
Remus.