Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ KOMA-Script | Custom Font for Headings

[ewk]

Hi all,

First of all, I'm new here and I hope that I "Fonts and character sets" is the correct position for my thread. I have the following problem:

I want to create a document looking a bit old-style, but not too much. For this purpose, I want to have all headings appear in Auriocus Kalligraphicus. The problem is that for this I need the abbreviation of the font, don’t I?
For "French cursive", I found by chance somewhere in the web that the abbreviation was "frc" so I could set the headings with these lines.
Auriocous Kalligraphicus: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/aurical/

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\newcommand{\changefont}[3]{
\fontfamily{#1} \fontseries{#2} \fontshape{#3} \selectfont}

\setkomafont{sectioning}{\changefont{frc}{m}{n}}

Is it possible that I do always need the abbreviation like "frc" to use a font? And if yes, Why isn’t the abbreviation somewhere on the internet (This already hints that I do not always need it I think?).

I hope my question is not too stupid, but it’s the first document in which I want to use non-computer-modern fonts, so I never had that problem before.


cheers,
ewk

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi ewk,

welcome to the board!

Authors usually don't need the abbreviations. Commonly they use a style file, i.e. load a package which provides a font, and loading it already activates the font. Font packages sometimes provide own commands, and that is the case here. So you can do:

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\usepackage{aurical}
\setkomafont{sectioning}{\Fontauri\bfseries}

Stefan

[ewk]

Hi Stefan,

Thank you, I was quite a bit desperate this afternoon In every tutorial for Dropcaps, KOMA etc. they always use these abbreviations... like this, it’s quite much easier!

cheers,
ewk