Text Formatting ⇒ Setting MinionPro as Sans serif

[hariharanb]

Hello,

Is it possible to set "Minion Pro" font as "Sans-serif" for one particular document?

[Montag]

Do you mean you want to use the Minion Pro font also for headers or do you mean the whole document set in sans serif, as in using Myriad Pro for the entire document?
For the first case, take a look: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... =48&t=8483. For the second case, use

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%\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

if you loaded Myriad.

[hariharanb]

No no, Setting "Minion Pro" for Sections and "Latin Modern" for Body.

[Montag]

Holy cow, I sincerely hope you will get no help whatsoever for applying this concept.

[hariharanb]

Hehe, I realized it was stupid of me to ask. But I don't have that much of knowledge as I started working with LaTeX only 6 months back. A lot of learning needs to be done.

Anyways, thank you for your reply

[Montag]

Well... another try: I guess the problem doesn't really lie in you being a beginner, it's maybe you don't know the right terms.
Do you actually want the LM Sans for the text and the Minion Pro for the headers?

[frabjous]

Well, it depends on what font family name MinionPro is using on your system, and that in turn depends on how you installed Minion Pro. Assuming it's the "Berry" designation pmn, you could use:

\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{pmn}

but it might also be something like:

\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{MinionPro-OsF}


But no, please, don’t typeset a document with Minion Pro titles and Latin Modern body text. That does sound horrifyingly ugly.

[hariharanb]

@ Enrico: This came out of mere curiosity. Just wanted to try and see how it looks like.

Here is what I am trying to do. I took the file article.cls and modified its contents and saved it as different name.

\normalfont
as
\usefont{T1}{MinionPro}{m}{n}\selectfont

Thanks to idea given by:
Gerd Neugebauer (http://extex.org)
Even gerd advised me not to do it as it would result in an ugly looking document. Curiosity got the better of me I guess.


@ frabjous: Point taken, sir.

[sgp]

I think with XeLaTeX it is pretty easy to change fonts. i am still a beginner, but this is what i found out.

i used this command to change fonts,
\setsansfont{Minion Pro}

before doing this, you need to download the fontspec files from the ctan site, and use this,
\usepackage{fontspec}