Set text font globally

[Noah Lovins]

Greeting everyone, what command is used to globally change the font for the text? 

Thank you!

-Noah

[Matthias Bry]

There are many options, for instance using fontspec :

\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX, Scale=1]{Arial}

In Christo,

Matthias

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[Noah Lovins]

Got an error when I tried. Perhaps I don't have fontspec included in my installation. I'm using Gregorio in Scribus.

[Matthias Bry]

You should have led with "I'm using Gregorio in Scribus". I'm not sure then, I don't know how it works.

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[Noah Lovins]

Finally got around to installing Gregorio the correct way with a LaTeX editor. I had been putting it off since I don't like working with programming languages. Tried your suggestion and it worked just fine. How can I add historical ligatures?

-Noah

[Matthias Bry]

This is not my area of expertise at all. My understanding is that the correct way to activate ligatures depends on the type of font used (OpenType vs TrueType) and whether the target ligatures are actually supported by the particular font.

If you google something like "activate hlig in opentype font in lualatex with fontspec" you get relevant results.

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[Matthew Roth]

I have it set up to print st and ct (both done by Dom Pothier in his earlier typesetting adventures)

%%% FONT %%%

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}[UprightFont=EB Garamond Regular,
ItalicFont= EB Garamond Italic,
BoldFont= EB Garamond Bold,
Ligatures=Rare,
Numbers=Proportional,
Numbers=OldStyle]

The syntax is a little odd because the EB Garamond font has some issues, and because I also have it installed on my machine. LaTeX finds it there, not in the package ebgaramond. (Which means that I struggle to find the medium weight of the typeface which is a bit annoying). Anyway, I hope that this is a good start. Do check the fontspec documentation, and if you get stuck, TeXSE is a good landing spot for questions.