But characters is not enough to support non-english languages. TeX has its own way to do that with commands for every diacritical marking see Escaped codes. But if we want accents and other special characters to appear directly in the source file, we have to tell TeX that we want to use a different encoding. There are several encodings available to LaTeX: Only bare english characters are supported in the source file.

Font sizes, families, and styles



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Outline fonts[ edit ] Outline fonts or vector fonts are collections of vector images , consisting of lines and curves defining the boundary of glyphs. Early vector fonts were used by vector monitors and vector plotters using their own internal fonts, usually with thin single strokes instead of thick outlined glyphs. The advent of desktop publishing brought the need for a universal standard to integrate the graphical user interface of the first Macintosh and laser printers. The universal standard was and still is Adobe PostScript. The primary advantage of outline fonts is that, unlike bitmap fonts , they are a set of lines and curves instead of pixels; they can be scaled without causing pixellation. Therefore, outline font characters can be scaled to any size and otherwise transformed with more attractive results than bitmap fonts, but require considerably more processing and may yield undesirable rendering, depending on the font, rendering software, and output size. Even so, outline fonts can be transformed into bitmap fonts beforehand if necessary.


Regular LaTeX
Suggested structure[ edit ] Probably the hardest part of writing a mathematical article actually, any article is the difficulty of addressing the level of mathematical knowledge on the part of the reader. For example, when writing about a field , do we assume that the reader already knows group theory? A general approach is to start simple, then move toward more abstract and technical statements as the article proceeds. Manual of Style lead section The article should start with a short introductory section often referred to as the lead.



The commands listed are for use within other environments. For example, p paragraph columns in tabular. There is no way in standard LaTeX to set full justification explicitly.