Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Font list in MIKTeX

[sgp]

Hi all,

I started using LaTeX last week and i am enjoying it. The default font looks great but i would like to change the font at times. I couldn't find the list of fonts provided in the MIKTeX package. Can anyone provide me with this. Sorry if this question is absurd. I am still a novice. Can you also tell me how to use them?

Thanks in advance,
regards,
sgp.

[frabjous]

Actually this isn’t as obvious or straightforward as one would like. Perhaps the easiest thing is to look at the LaTeX Font Catalogue for a list of those fonts available on CTAN (and therefore through MiKTeX’s package manager). The pages in the catalogue for the individual fonts tell you what packages you need to load or commands to use to load the font.

Those fonts are for regular LaTeX or pdfLaTeX.

(Searching CTAN, or browsing its fonts folder, may turn others up too, though a lot listed there are fonts with technical symbols.)

You might also be interested in using XeLaTeX, which will allow you to use any font installed on your system fairly easily with the fontspec package.

[sgp]

@above
Thanks for the info.

Can you tell me if it would be enough to use \usepackage{<font name>} to use the font.

regards,
sgp.

[frabjous]

Depends on the font. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. When it does work it’s only because you got lucky and the package is named after the font. As mentioned, the catalogue tells you what commands you need.

[sgp]

hi frabjous,

thanks for the info. i tried using XeLaTeX with fontspec. its working fine and able to get amazing outputs. thanks a lot guys.

regards,
sgp.