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Apple - Change Equation Font In Pages

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Answer : Pages uses blahtex to generate PNGs from the rudimentary maths environments. The following fonts are available out of the box with blahtex: 2.12 Fonts \mathbf \mathbb \mathrm \mathit \mathcal \mathfrak \mathsf \mathtt \boldsymbol \rm \bf \it \cal \tt \sf \Bbb \bold Unfortunately, Pages does not support all of these fonts, most notably mathcal. Pages does support: …and their shorthands: This very point has bothered me - I detest the fact that the font in my equations is so different to the rest of my doc. I explored various methods for changing font but none worked. Yesterday I stumbled across a brilliant hack for this (though not entirely fullproof). Pages supports the /text{} command, which can be embedded anywhere. The command is meant for including full words around equations so they don't look so odd. How to use it within equations? Surround characters, or groups of characters with the /text{} command. Here are some example...