Change font for whole sections of a memoir

Question

I am writing a book in the Memoir package. The book is, in fact, a memoir. Most of the book is fairly standard content, but some sections are not. I am calling these "interludes". I now have them marked by having "Interlude" in the section name, which I am putting in the header of the page. But I was thinking of marking these sections by using a different font (maybe Times).

I was wondering a) If this is a good idea (although that may be off topic) and b) How to do this?

I'm pretty sure this has been asked before, but I tried Googling and got very confused.

Thanks

The subjective question of whether to do this is off topic. But the how question is answerable. Easiest would probably to use the builtin sectioning hooks that memoir provides to change the font. — Alan Munn, Nov 16 '22 at 21:14
The general method for font changing can be found here: How do I use a particular font for a small section of text in my document?. If that's all you need, then this is a duplicate. If you're interested in doing it more automatically then make that the focus of your question and provide a MWE to show what you're doing. — Alan Munn, Nov 16 '22 at 21:57
Thanks! The answer you hightlighted solved my problem, so this is a dupe. — Peter Flom, Nov 17 '22 at 18:11

Vincent Krebs · Answer 1 · 2022-11-16T22:04:13.717

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If using LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX along with the fontspec package, do the following.

In the preamble, use the command \newfontfamily to define a command that will allow you to easily switch to the desired font, e.g.:

\newfontfamily\interludefont[UprightFont={* Light},BoldFont={* Bold}]{AT Hadriano Std}

This is a manual solution, though: at the beginning of each "interlude", you need to input your \interludefont command. For setting a specific style for the body of one particular type of section, however, I don't know.

edited Nov 16 '22 at 22:04

answered Nov 16 '22 at 21:49

Vincent Krebs

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This assumes the OP is using LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX, since this is a fontspec command. But they haven't provided any code so we don't know that. – Alan Munn Nov 16 '22 at 21:55
Did with whatever little info we have. Anyway, only he can tell. – Vincent Krebs Nov 16 '22 at 22:01

Change font for whole sections of a memoir

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