Math & Science ⇒ Sans for text, Roman for Equations?

[EdGatzke]

Is there an easy way to specify sans serif fonts for text in LaTeX and Roman / Times for equations?

Ideally without having to change every equation in a document...

Thanks!

Edit: Solved below.

[frabjous]

This can be done very easily. See, e.g., this thread, but it would help to know exactly what fonts you want!


For Computer Modern Roman math and Computer Modern sans text:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel} % required for blindtext
\usepackage{blindtext} % for auto-generating a document

\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\begin{document}
\blindmathpaper % auto-generate math document
\end{document}

For Times math with Helvetica text:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel} % required for blindtext
\usepackage{blindtext} % for auto-generating a document
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{txfonts}

\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\begin{document}
\blindmathpaper % auto-generate math document
\end{document}

If you want some other combination, let us know which.

[EdGatzke]

Thanks a ton for helping me out! I had troubles with the blindtext, but your link to the other thread and some more googling got me fixed. I though I had searched on this adequately, but apparently not.

I am a big idiot. I am using Beamer which defaults to sans for all fonts. I finally found a nice example with a variety of example pages, and one of them pointed out the beamer class takes a option of mathserif that does exactly what I needed, equations are in serif and text is in sans.

In case you want to see some nice beamer font combo examples, here it is:
http://math.ecnu.edu.cn/~latex/beamer/MathFonts.pdf

Thanks again!

[localghost]

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Thorsten