On 28.08.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
>> My default typeface is Palatino. It's a combination of
>> traditional and modern and always evokes a positive response.
> The LyX font dialog lists Palatino but not Palatino Sans.
There is no Palatino Sans (there is no Times-Sans either). Actually, only
few font "brands" inclode both a serif and sans-serif family.
> What do you use for sans serif (and for typewriter), "default"?
Sans-Serif: default, because I do not use sans serifs in the document.
Otherwise, depending on the audience
I'd take one of Iwona, Helvetica, Avant-Garde or a
Vera-Sans variant (Bera or Arev).
There are TeX-Gyre extensions for Helvetica and Avant-Garde
as well (but not via the GUI).
Typewriter: txtt (nice font with bold, slanted and
small-caps, part of the txfonts bundle)
"default" in the GUI and
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{txtt}
in the LaTeX preamble.
(see also http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4979)
Although I am by far not a font-guru, I spend some amount of time and
effort into the topic and compiled an up-to-date survey about "Free math
fonts for LaTeX" (in German) with > 40 samples of both serif and
sans-serif text-math font combinations. I just wonder, where to publish
it.
Günter
