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Recently I redesigned my default letter template in latex. I use the scrlttr2 package from the koma-script suite. In some .lco-file you may adjust a lot of settings.

But how to change the default font? And which fonts exist by the way?

First of all, I installed the texlive extra fonts:

apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra

In your document you select now the fontpackage if there is one. E.g.

\usepackage{charter}

And/Or you change the default font family:

\renewcommand{\familydefault}{bch}

The FontCatalogue on www.tug.dk helps you very much with the selection. You see for every font the syntax to include it and some text written with it. Perfect! Have a look at:

http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/

I recently wrote a German paper with kile and LaTeX.

In the header, I included the folowing line:

\usepackage[ngerman] {babel} 

But the hyphenation didn't work (or at least: it worked but made the hyphen elsewhere) and there came always one warning:

  No hyphenation patterns were loaded for(babel) the language `ngerman'(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

Problem solved: The tetex-extra package was missing or maybe texlive-lang-german would have been sufficiant.

apt-get install tetex-extra