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<span id="Fonts-for-Printing"></span><h4 class="subsection">7.2.3 Fonts for Printing</h4>
<span id="index-Fonts-for-printing"></span>
<span id="index-fonttextsize"></span>
<span id="index-Font-size_002c-reducing"></span>
<span id="index-Reducing-font-size"></span>
<span id="index-Smaller-fonts"></span>
<p>Texinfo provides one command to change the size of the main body font
in the TeX output for a document: <code>@fonttextsize</code>. It has no
effect in other output. It takes a single argument on the remainder
of the line, which must be either ‘<samp>10</samp>’ or ‘<samp>11</samp>’. For
example:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">@fonttextsize 10
</pre></div>
<span id="index-Printing-cost_002c-reducing"></span>
<p>The effect is to reduce the body font to a 10pt size (the
default is 11pt). Fonts for other elements, such as sections
and chapters, are reduced accordingly. This should only be used in
conjunction with <code>@smallbook</code> (see <a href="_0040smallbook.html"><code>@smallbook</code></a>) or
similar, since 10pt fonts on standard paper (8.5x11 or A4) are
too small. One reason to use this command is to save pages, and hence
printing cost, for physical books.
</p>
<p>Texinfo does not at present have commands to switch the font family
to use, or more general size-changing commands.
</p>
<p>Texinfo also provides a number of font commands that specify font
changes in the printed manual and (where possible) in the HTML output.
They have no effect in Info. All the commands apply to a following
argument surrounded by braces.
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<dl compact="compact">
<dt><code>@b</code></dt>
<dd><span id="index-b-_0028bold-font_0029"></span>
<span id="index-Bold-font"></span>
<p>selects <b>bold</b> face;
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@i</code></dt>
<dd><span id="index-i-_0028italic-font_0029"></span>
<span id="index-Italic-font"></span>
<p>selects an <i>italic</i> font;
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@r</code></dt>
<dd><span id="index-r-_0028roman-font_0029"></span>
<span id="index-Roman-font"></span>
<span id="index-Default-font"></span>
<p>selects a <span class="roman">roman</span> font, which is the usual font in which text is
printed. It may or may not be seriffed.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@sansserif</code></dt>
<dd><span id="index-sansserif-_0028sans-serif-font_0029"></span>
<span id="index-Sans-serif-font"></span>
<p>selects a <span class="sansserif">sans serif</span> font;
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@slanted</code></dt>
<dd><span id="index-slanted-_0028slanted-font_0029"></span>
<span id="index-Slanted-font"></span>
<span id="index-Oblique-font"></span>
<p>selects a <i>slanted</i> font;
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@t</code></dt>
<dd><span id="index-t-_0028typewriter-font_0029"></span>
<span id="index-Monospace-font"></span>
<span id="index-Fixed_002dwidth-font"></span>
<span id="index-Typewriter-font"></span>
<p>selects the <tt>fixed-width</tt>, typewriter-style font used by <code>@code</code>;
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>(The commands with longer names were invented much later than the
others, at which time it did not seem desirable to use very short
names for such infrequently needed features.)
</p>
<span id="index-_003clineannotation_003e-Docbook-tag"></span>
<p>The <code>@r</code> command can be useful in example-like environments, to
write comments in the standard roman font instead of the fixed-width
font. This looks better in printed output, and produces a
<code><lineannotation></code> tag in Docbook output.
</p>
<p>For example,
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">@lisp
(+ 2 2) ; @r{Add two plus two.}
@end lisp
</pre></div>
<p>produces
</p>
<div class="lisp">
<pre class="lisp">(+ 2 2) ; <span class="roman">Add two plus two.</span>
</pre></div>
<p>The <code>@t</code> command can occasionally be useful to produce output in
a typewriter font where that is supported (e.g., HTML and PDF), but no
distinction is needed in Info or plain text: <code>@t{foo}</code>
produces <tt>foo</tt>, cf. <code>@code{foo}</code> producing <code>foo</code>.
</p>
<p>In general, the other font commands are unlikely to be useful; they
exist primarily to make it possible to document the functionality of
specific font effects, such as in TeX and related packages.
</p>
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