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How change math font size in power?
How can I change the font for power such a way that the power symbol is rendered much smaller than the number 3 in the following formula? I need to sum (necessarily with \displaystyle) was much ...
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Layout for seminar paper; justified, font, size, spacing
I just started university and decided to graduate from Word for writing my papers, thesises and so on.
But I have some problems with probably the most simple things... I got this template:
here the ...
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Special non-standard font sizes for different types
The more I read about fontsizes in LaTeX, the more confused I've become. I don't know how to meet my requirements, which are the following:
text = 11pt --> This works.
footnotes = 9pt --> This ...
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Using multiple system fonts
I'd like to use 3-4 different specific system fonts (e.g., Georgia, HelveticaNeui Light, and Lucida Sans) with certain font sizes for different sections of a page. How would I do this?
Edit: Thanks ...
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Scrbook: Using fallback calculation to setup font sizes
When using the class scrbook and customizing the font size prior the usage of \printbibliography I got these warning (and in big documents I got them several times):
Class scrbook Warning: Using ...
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standard latex font in lyx
By default, LyX sets font to be Times New Roman in the article class. When I print my document it looks different than most other latex documents which seem to be using a different font. What ...
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Broken display of 11pt typewriter text in Acrobat Reader [duplicate]
I set some all-caps words in my document as typewriter. Using scrartcl as documentclass, with a default fontsize of 11pt, yields a PDF that looks rather bad in Acrobat Reader. Here is an example:
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Change font size in arabtex package
I need to write some words in Arabic in a LaTeX file. I'm currently using arabtex package to do that as following:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{arabtex}
\begin{document}
\RL{f.s.hY ...
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Should I use fix-cm?
I recently became aware of the existence of the fix-cm package. I've looked at the documentation in fixltx2e.pdf, but it's not clear to me exactly what the problem is that it fixes. Should I worry ...
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Change font size only in a part of a document
I have created my thesis using mathptmx size 12pt. I would use in only a part Latin Modern but not 12pt instead 11pt. How can I achieve that? I tought to \small but I don't know if correspond to the ...
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Is it Possible to Obtain Rudin-Style LaTeX Document Format? [closed]
I'm trying to obtain some format settings (or copyable code) for LaTeX documents.
Above is a screenshot of Walter Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis (a book I'm sure many people here have ...
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How can the default font size for a family be set?
I want to use the luximono font for all my listings and all verbatims. By default, this font seems to be bigger than the rest, so I adjusted my listings with basicstyle=\ttfamily\scriptsize which I ...
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Scaling cmtt to match times
I want to use Times Roman (times) as the default font and Computer Modern Typewriter (cmtt) for monospaced text. However, Computer Modern is a little too large. How do I scale it down document-wide?
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Setup font size of different types to be the same
For mathematical documents i like using the fourier package with the upright option, however the symbols \mathcal produces are quite too quirky in my opinion, so I replaced them with the default font ...
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Replacing a character with a different one of a different point size [closed]
The following image shows two ways of writing "2009" in Adobe Garamond Pro:
The first one is standard 12pt. In the second "2009," the zeros are written with this command:
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Setting height of \includegraphics{} from current display style
I'm thinking about building a new symbol library and I need to test out the command set. I slapped together a quick set of math symbols using a set of commands
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Why two forms for annotating style of text?
When I want text to be large I say:
{\Large lorem}
When I want text to be bold I say:
\textbf{lorem}
Why the inconsistency? What's the implementation detail or philosophy behind these two ...
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Font switch in ConTeXt mkiv
I am struggling to switch the fonts in ConTeXt accordingly and feel that I am missing something basic. I try to mimic
\RequirePackage{fontspec}
% Use Neo Euler as math font
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Problems with setbeamerfont
I'm trying to change the size of fonts in the title of my beamer blocks but am getting nowhere.
Here is a link to a ZIP file containing what you should need to see… Too much code to post here. The ...
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What is the recommended font to use for a statistical table in an academic journal?
I am brand new to LaTex, and I am trying to create a report displaying statistical data, for an academic publication.
The table is quite a large one, consisting of several nested columns, and is 23 ...
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Open Type Fonts have different scale in XeLaTeX
I am trying to create a template that allows easy switching of the main font using fontspec. I have noticed that the size of different fonts varies greatly, as the picture below illustrates. If we ...
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How to correctly use the palatino font (in memoir)?
I'm preparing a PhD thesis (using memoir and pdfLaTeX), and I find the palatino font a nice body font.
Reading the font related questions and answers on this awesome site, I think I have pieced ...
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How to fake mid-caps with LaTeX? (I.e. How to stretch characters of a font?)
Background
As discussed in this question, one would often like to use small caps for abbreviations, however, mixed case acronyms such as OpenMP look rather odd (see example 2 below):
The problem ...
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how to change font and font size when using \ref
In this topic list the cases in text, I got a way to list cases by using
\begin{enumerate}
[label=\textbf{Case~\arabic*.},
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Scaling fonts document-wide
I'm looking to use lcmtt mentioned here as my default typewriter font, but the scaling is way out of proportion with the rest of the text. I've used the following commands to enable the font:
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Why does vector graphics font not exist for a certain size?
In my understanding, vector graphics font can be shrunk or expanded without limitation. In other words, its size spans in continuous real numbers. But I got surprised after getting the following ...
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Palatino italics relatively small in body text?
I'm using Palatino (\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}) as the main font for my thesis, and it occurred to me that italic (and possibly also bold) body texts are somewhat smaller than the ...
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Setting font size in Greek text with TexnicCenter and Miktex
How is it possible to define the fontsize in documents written in Greek? I am using TexnicCenter and Miktex and trying the following example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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Selecting optical size?
For some time I've seen LaTeX-produced documents that had slight differences in fonts. When you looked at them, they had the same Computer-Modern or Latin-Modern, however, they looked more stylized ...
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Format chapter's heading
I want all my headings to have these characteristics:
12pt
Center aligned
Bold
Times new roman font
But when I write \chapter{Introduction}, I can only manipulate the name of the chapter, not the ...
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Is an adjustable font in figures possible?
When I resize my pdf figures and graphs I often find that the text in these figures become too small to read. Is there a way of ensuring that the font in figures match the body text?
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Which font should be used for diagrams/graphs/flow charts?
I'm using the standard serif fonts in KOMA script for typesetting my thesis, 11pt for normal text.
What font and font size would be recommended for use in graphs, diagrams and flow charts?
The same ...
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Using 'xfrac' with 'mathrsfs'
I'm attempting to move from the nicefrac package to xfrac. The following source compiles, but with a warning:
\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
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How to change the font size of a document? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How to change font size in the entire document?
How to specify font size less than 10pt in LaTeX
Sometimes when I want to review a draft I need larger fonts. Is there ...
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Specifying font sizes [duplicate]
I am trying to change the font size of my document to 8pt.
However I can not get it to take effect. I am trying it in the \documentclass declaration.
Should it be specified elsewhere?
I am using ...
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How to make contextual framed letters get proportional size automatically?
I am creating a question sheet using a method (I don't know the exact name, maybe bubble sheet format) as follows:
My question is how to improve the appearance such that the framed letters get ...
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Vertical alignment of fonts of different sizes on same line
In XeTeX, if I have a line with two font sizes, how can I arrange to have the smaller font aligned to either the center or top of the line?
e.g.
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How to enlarge “fourier” font to match “utopia” package
I'd love to exchange the "obsolete" utopia package against the fourier package for a couple of reasons. Unfortunately, the Utopia font in the fourier package renders much smaller compared to the ...
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How to make proportional subscript when using smaller font in math mode?
How to make proportional subscript when using \tiny (or smaller than normal font size) in math mode?
The following screenshot shows subscripts for \tiny, \scriptsize and normal font sizes.
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How to change font family in footnote?
How can I change font family (and size) for footnotes? Would be great to see a small example.
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How to create a newcommand for fontsize?
I am trying to create a command to modify fontsize with one parameter, it seems that the paramater is not expanding properly:
\newcommand{\mycfs}[1]{\fontsize{#1pt}{1.2*#1pt}}
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How to set the font for a \section title (and chapter etc)
How do I specify the fonts, and general font size, for the titles, chapters and sections in my document
Update:
I can see how my question is confusing.
I use \section and \chapter etc. to organise ...
