Christopher Reeve schrieb:
According to this blog http://telin.ugent.be/~slippens/drupal/?q=textnormal \textrm is often used where \textnormal is intended.
According to the link \textrm puts text in roman font mode and does not
inherit from body text font like \textnormal does. Can anyone with a LaTeX book
confirm this?
In LyX \textrm is inserted when choosing "Normal text mode" from the maths toolbar.
When using the shortcut command-m or alt-m-m surprisingly \mbox is created which again has a slightly different behaviour I believe... such as preventing text from being broken.
I think \textnormal should be the default with the short cut as well as in the toolbar and that \mbox should also be made accessible through the toolbar.
\textrm switches only to \rmfamily, but
\textnormal to \encodingdefault, \familydefault,
\seriesdefault, and \shapedefault
which is far different. In general the user wants to set his
current font to \rmfamily without changing the other
font parameters.
Herbert
