HTML output should default to sans-setif section headings and serif text

[krishnakumarg1984]

In the canonical LaTeX documentclass book or report for a long-form document (which is bookdown's target category), it is desirable to have the body text is typeset using serif version of the font while having the section headings typeset using sans-serif versions of the font. This appears to be a strong typographical convention for reasons of the comfort of reading.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64059/sans-serif-headings-serif-body-text http://www.khirevich.com/latex/font/ https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/hardware_and_creative/9781847199867/11/ch11lvl1sec155/time-for-action-designing-chapter-and-section-headings

Right now, looking at the gitbook output of the bookdown book as well as the gitbook output generated by bookdown-minimal project template, it is not easy to make such a fine-tuned change. The changes of font type currently get applied throughout the document. Can we fine-tune this somehow?

[cderv]

With HTML output, you should be able to customize font using CSS as any other HTML output. You can target specific part of the document using CSS selector.

Did you try that already ?

I'll close this as I don't think this is bookdown specific.

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Thank you.

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