Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.com From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: TeX, Changing font Styles in LaTeX Message-ID: <1503@intercon.com> Date: 19 Oct 89 14:43:04 GMT References: <5030@cps3xx.UUCP> <2631@lll-lcc.UUCP> <20257@mimsy.umd.edu> Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 21 In article <20257@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes: > They are indeed. Readability is largely a matter of familiarity. > > If you set the main body of your text in Helvetica, you may turn off > reviewers, etc. If the goal is `resident in the Apple LaserWriter', > I say you would be better off with Times-Roman. (Be sure to use at > least 11 point if the paper is going to be photocopied.) > -- > `They were supposed to be green.' > In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) > Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris True enough, unless you happen to be submitting a paper to a European journal (Sans Serif typefaces are *much* more popular in Europe than in the U.S.), or want to make it look like it came from CMU :-)... -- Amanda Walker "Tobacco is the only drug in America that will kill you if it's taken as directed." --Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General