BTW, I have tried using tgpagella and mathpazo in one document, but saw no differences. Are there any? I use quite a lot of math, but the document I'm trying with is just text.
Best regards. ------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas [email protected] On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Rob > > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:31:06 -0600 > Rob Oakes <[email protected]> wrote: >> The letter forms of Palatino may be the most refined ever created. >> But, I've never really been able to find a sans-serif and mono-spaced >> font that matches well. (At least not per my aesthetic taste.) For >> that reason, I don't use it often. A good designer friend says that >> Univers (or if you really need to go there, Helvetica) are >> appropriate pairings. I think he consumed too many magic mushrooms >> in his youth. (I actually agree with the Univers pairing. It offers >> good typographical contrast and the final effect really is quite >> nice, just not for really long texts.) >> > I'm very curious, have you tried to pair Palatino with Optima? > To me it looks as if they were designed with the same eye (literary > true, since they were both created by Hermann Zapf). In my documents I > use > \usepackage{tgpagella} > \renewcommand*\sfdefault{uop} > > and while Optima is not installed by default, > it's easy to get it into TeXLive 07 [1]. I never liked Palatino > with Helvetica, but I'll experiment with Univers. > > As for the Sweave > (monospace) part, I change the default in "verbatim" to > "fontfamily=courier", which tends to be a shade of grey and thus to set > apart the code from the rest of the text (at least the way I > perceive it). > > Should you have an opinion on the Palatino and Optima combination, > please let us know. > Liviu > > PS To continue the non-essential rant department, I also include package > microtype in my preamble, although I am not yet sure what's its net > impact on my documents. > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg77584.html >
