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selecting fonts:

font packages: avant, bookman, chancery, charter, courier, helvet, newcent, palatino, times, utopia
the packages only provide means to automagically set font families (i.e. the actual fonts are available whether or not you decide to use a package):
```
% ...
\usepackage{PACKAGE}
% ...
\begin{document}
```
instead of including one of the packages you can still use the table and the commands below.

fonts: this is list is by no means exhaustive.

type	family	name
roman	`cmr`	Computer Modern Roman
	`ccr`	Concrete Roman
	`panr`	Pandora Roman
	`eur`	Euler Roman
	`pbk`	Bookman
	`pzc`	Zapf Chancery
	`bch`	Charter
	`pnc`	NewCentury Schoolbook
	`ppl`	Palatino
	`ptm`	Times
	`put`	Utopia
sans serif	`cmss`	Computer Modern Sans Serif
	`pss`	Pandora Sans
	`pag`	AvantGarde/BookmanNewCentury Schoolbook
	`phv`	Helvetica/Palatino/Times
typewriter	`cmtt`	Computer Modern Typewriter
typewriter	`pcr`	Bookman/Courier/Palatino/Times/NewCentury Schoolbook
gothic	`ygoth`	Gothic
	`yfrak`	Fraktur
	`yswab`	Schwabacher
pifonts	`pzd`	ZapfDingbats
	`psy`	Symbol
	`pzc`	ZapfChancery
unknown	`eus`	Euler Script
	`euf`	Euler Fraktur
	`cmdh`	Computer Modern Dunhill

selecting a font:

\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{FAMILY}% default cmr
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{FAMILY}% default cmss
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{FAMILY}% default cmtt

changing the default font family to sans serif:
```
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
```
the textbf inside texttt problem: with the default typewriter font the following truct will not work:
```
\texttt{foo\textbf{BLARG}bar}
```
insert the following command into the preamble of your document:
```
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr}
```
pi fonts:
```
% ...
\usepackage{pifonts}
% ...
\begin{document}
```
see the following for a list of commands:
- selecting a pi font (see table above)
```
\Pifont{FONT}
```
- inserting a single symbol:
```
\Pisymbol{FONT}{NUMBER}
% or
\ding{NUMBER}
```
- filling the remainder of the line:
```
\Pifill{FONT}{NUMBER}
% or
\dingfille{NUMBER}
```
- inserting a whole line:
```
\Piline{FONT}{NUMBER}
% or
\dingline{NUMBER}
```
- create an list environment which starts item with a predefined symbol:
```
\begin{Pilist}{FONT}{NUMBER}\end{Pilist}
% or
\begin{dinglist}{NUMBER}\end{dinglist}
```
- create a list environment which starts a numbered list beginning with the predefined symbol:
```
\begin{Piautolist}\end{Piautolist}{FONT}{NUMBER}
% or
\begin{dingautolist}{NUMBER}\end{dingautolist}
```
  this list was designed to be used with ZapfDingbats symbols 172, 182, 192 and 202 but should not exceed 10 items.
the ding commands have the ZapfDingbats font hardcoded into them.

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