Font changing: text

LATEX2e<#412#><#412#> has a very different font selection scheme to LATEX~2.09. In this section, we give a brief description of the new commands. A more detailed description with examples is given in <#413#> <#413#>, and the interface for class- and package-writers is described in <#414#> <#414#>.
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These are font commands whose use is the same as the commands ||, ||, etc. The difference is that each command changes just one attribute of the font (the attribute changed is part of the name). One result of this is that, for example, || produces both a change of series and a change of shape, to give a bold italic font.
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These are one-argument commands; they take as an argument the text which is to be typeset in the particular font. They also automatically insert italic corrections where appropriate; if you do not like the result, you can add an italic correction with || or remove it with ||. The || should always be the first or last thing within the <#429#>text<#429#> argument.