Re: Why is everything in courier by default?

On 2005-04-15, Wilfried Hennings <[email protected]> wrote:

>>It seems that everything is typeset in courier by default. I
>>have to add a "\rm" at the beginning of the document to get
>>latex2rtf to use a roman typeface.  That still leaves certain
>>things (e.g. footnotes) in courier.
>>
>>Why is courier the default in the RTF file when roman is the
>>default in LaTeX?  Is there a way to change the RTF default
>>font to roman?
>
> That is strange. If I open an rtf file generated by latex2rtf, it is 
> typeset in Times New Roman.

I'm told it's a bug that has something to do with one of the
\usepackage{} lines.  Apparrently \usepackage{helvet} is the
leading suspect.

latex2rtf 1.9.16a (Thu Apr 14 08:36:12 2005)

Here's an document that demonstrates the problem:

\nonstopmode
\documentclass[pdf,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[scaled=.92]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage{graphicx,color}
\usepackage[square]{natbib}
\pagestyle{plain}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-1cm}
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-1cm}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-1cm}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{1cm}
\addtolength{\textheight}{2cm}
\begin{document}
\title{A Meaningless Paper\\ Used to Test latex2rtf Fonts}
\author{Grant Edwards}
\date{\today}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
A paper containing no real content used to test the latex2rtf
conversion program's handling of fonts and stuff like that.
\end{abstract}
\section{Introduction}
Why is this in courier?  In LaTeX, normal text like this
defaults to roman.
\section{Another Section}
\rm 
Through this is in times because I've added a ``backslash rm'' 
command.\footnote{But this is in courier again.}
\end{document}



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