Text Style

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The following commands change the font for their argument:

description	command
font family:
roman (default)	\textrm
sans serif	\textsf
typewriter	\texttt
font style:
bold	\textbf
italics	\textit

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For each of these commands exist alternate forms that switch the font for the following text. Their range can be limited by using {, }.

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Starting with roman style, I switch { \it now to italics until the end } of the block.

results in:

Starting with roman style, I switch now to italics until the end of the block.

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The following commands to change the font size are valid until the end of their block:

command	result
\tiny	Armadillo
\small	Armadillo
\normalsize	Armadillo
\large	Armadillo
\Large	Armadillo

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Text can be emphasized with \emph{}. This usually changes to italics, but uses roman, if the surrounding text already uses italics.

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To print something exactly like it is typed, one can use the verbatim environment:

 \begin{verbatim}
    Now   the   spaces   are    relevant.
       and
           newlines
    as well.
 \end{verbatim}
 

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A horizontal space is inserted with \hspace{LENGTH}, a vertical space (usually between paragraphs) with \vspace{LENGTH}. The LENGTH can be given in several units, e.g.:

• mm, cm, in, pt, em (width of an M), ex (height of an x).