Re: Re: Why is everything in courier by default?

Wilfried Hennings <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:24:21 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.latex.latex2rtf.devel
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At 15.04.2005 18:29, Grant Edwards wrote:
>On 2005-04-15, Wilfried Hennings <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>[...]
> >
> > OK, this makes things much clearer. Why does your test file
> > include packages helvet AND courier?
>
>Because I want helvetica as the sans font and courier for the
>fixed font.
>
> > Just change the order of both packages, then latex2rtf outputs
> > the standard text in Helvetica (Arial).
>
>Thats wrong as well.  Standard text should be in roman. Neither
>the helvet nor courier packages change the default font.  They
>just change which typfaces are used by LaTeX for sans-serif and
>for typewriter.
>
> > It seems that latex2rtf honors the LAST font setting:
>
>It shouldn't be paying any attention to either.  It uses
>fonts.cfg to determine what fonts to use for
>roman,sans,typewriter.

You are right. Scott fixed it in the development version, and the fix will 
be included in the next release.


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