{fontsize} is about selecting a document's standard font size (with class options like 12pt), changing relative font sizes within a document (with macros like \small or \large), and defining or modifying {macros} related to font sizes.
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Change the title size in scrartcl
I'd like to use a smaller title. I'm using the scrartcl documentclass from the KOMA-Script bundle. I can change it's color font but not it's size.
\setkomafont{title}{\normalfont\bfseries\small}
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\@setfontsize vs. \fontsize
What are the differences between \@setfontsize and \fontsize?
For example, in Martin Scharrer's answer to How to create a newcommand for fontsize? he says:
This is done by calling ...
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Abbreviations for AM, PM (small caps) for use within \textbf
I have been using \textsc for the abbreviations for AM, PM, but it does not work within \textbf{}. As you can see in the image, within a \textbf{}, it reverts to the normal lower case letter. Ulrike ...
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How to set default font size in latex cls file?
I am using a custom LaTeX document class for my thesis which is derived from the report class. I'd like to set the default size of the font to 12pt, and still have the option to change it (to 10pt) ...
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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 scale all mathematics of a document [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Equations, change the font size
How to scale math font only
I am very new to LaTeX. I want all mathematics(i.e. the thing we write inside $...$ and \[...\]) of my ...
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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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Changing the chapter heading size in quotchap
I am using the quotchap package to format chapter headings in a document. Is it possible to change the default font size for the chapter headings? For example, in the document.tex file at the above ...
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How to make math font huge
I would like to typeset a simple-to-medium-difficulty math formula on an A4/letter paper. It needs to be huge and preferably centered and portrait.
I can take care of the paper size, the orientation ...
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When I use [shrink], I lose vertical centering. How do I get my stuff shrunk and centered?
I am creating a beamer slide with a table on it. This table is too big with the normal font size, so I am using the shrink command to try to make it smaller.
shrink is working, however it is ...
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Can I make all section headings bigger?
I want to make all section headings in LaTeX document bigger by a given scale. For example, I want all of them have 150% of size that they have now.
Can I do that somehow? (Ideally using sectsty)
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Change font size relative to current font size
For some small macros I'm writing I would need to change the font size relative to the font size of the text that surrounds to macro later on.
I only know how to change the font size for the whole ...
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Changing the text size is not working
I am an eighth grader that needs some help. I am a noob at anything TeX or LaTeX, and am just starting out. I am using USBTeX, just in case that matters.
I cannot seem to change the text size in ...
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Setting a single equation in a paragraph in a smaller font
I'm trying to figure out the best way of making a single equation just a little bit smaller. Of course, I could try and break up the equation into pieces and proceed that way, but I'd like to ...
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Different font sizes for different rows
I want to put different sizes of fonts (smaller) into different rows of my LaTeX table. I found that it is possible to have different font sizes for different columns of this post. Is there any simple ...
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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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LateX: text going smaller and smaller
I guess this is an unusual question as I have not found anything related (then again, maybe I searched poorly).
So what I would like to do is having an enumeration (in a beamer slide) go smaller and ...
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Adjust font size on-the-fly
In my document I want to emphasize some key points by placing them in a box with rounded corners. This I do using the following code:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\begin{document}
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Change typeface size after \documentclass?
I use the same tex file to create several different layouts with basically the same content. I have several switches and \ifthenelse constructs to control the layouts. Normally, I just have to set one ...
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Trouble changing font size in figure legends
I'm trying to set the font size smaller in the legends for all of my figures and tables. The way I was trying to do this was using \AtBeginEnvironment but that doesn't seem to do anything at all. This ...
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Determine height and depth of letters relative to the font size
I would like to scale graphical elements (like images, tikz and tikz-timing diagrams) relative to the font size, so that they have the same height as an normal uppercase letter (i.e. X or M; I noticed ...
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What does the font size documentclass option actually do?
When using e.g. the [12pt] option for a document class like
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
what does (Xe)LaTeX actually do/set?
I noticed that for example a multicols environment behaves different ...
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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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Why does \relsize{-1} in normal size not result in \smaller?
This is maybe just me being unable to find the corresponding part of the manual, but I'd expect relsize's \smaller or \relsize{-1} to have the same effect as using \small inside normal-sized text. ...
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Altering fontsize in equations globally
I am trying to typeset all formulas in an article using \small font.
If I use \DeclareMathSizes{9}{8}{6}{4}, then the size of in-line math in regular text is also changed. However, I want to redefine ...
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How to change font size in Index in memoir class?
Each time I build the index with makeindex I have to insert \footnotesize after \begin{theindex} in book.ind file. I use memoir class. Is there an automatic way to do this?
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Subsection size in header doesn't change header height
I want to change the font size of section and subsection titles in the header. It works fine for the section title, the header automatically increases its height (as stated in the beamer manual) but ...
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Change the size of only a part/subset of a single equation
For example, I'd like to do:
$Q^{r<1}$
but with the r<1 having a much smaller font size than the Q. Of course r<1 will naturally have a smaller size since it is a superscript, but I want ...
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Matrix in small size
Does anyone have a good idea for an alternative matrix definition with a font size between the standard size used for say pmatrix and the \scriptstyle size used by smallmatrix?
I have several vectors ...
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How do I get references in subscripts to be the right size when compiling to dvi with hyperref?
(Having investigated the original question, I'm taking the liberty of re-writing it as I've found a MWE and so isolated the problem, but I don't know a solution. Andrew Stacey.)
The scenario is as ...
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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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Making default font size 16pt [duplicate]
I want to write a document which has the default font size as 16pt. But I believe \documentclass[a4paper,16pt]{report} will not do it. What will be the correct way to make the default font size as 16 ...
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Change size of section, subsection, subsubsection, paragraph and subparagraph title
I would like to increase the size of pretty much every headlines, so that it is more prominent than the normal text.
I read about the titlesec package, but can't seem to find good example how to use ...
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Redefining quote environment with tiny font and double quote signs?
I want to redefine the quote environment in such a way to get the output of the following code.
\begin{quote}{\tiny\textquotedblleft Text \textquotedblright}\end{quote}
I also want to fix the line ...
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typesetting the document which fits into marked fixed lines
I have a to typeset the article such that, the output should be printed on the fixed marks that are 1.36 cms apart.
In other words, printing sheet has marked lines which are 1.36 cms apart. I have ...
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Switching to different font size(s) locally
Inside a 12pt document I like to switch in an environment to a font size of 10pt. The macros like \normalsize, \large, \small etc. should all work like in a 10pt document. I'm aware that this isn't ...
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Change font size of an align environment
In a document, I'd like to change the font size of a single align environment (not globally throughout the document). What is the proper way to do this? I've been using
Preceding paragraph.
{\tiny
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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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How can I raise an item symbol?
I don't like the appearance of standard \textbullet. It's too big. I decided to shrink it using \footnotesize{}. Unfortunately, the bullet is not at the center of a line (It's a little lower). How can ...
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Environment that applies sizeN.clo
My document has a base font size of 12pt, but I want the figures to be typeset as if the base font size were 10pt (some of the figures use graphics packages that hardwire font size commands rather ...
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Changing size of footnote symbols in titlesec-formatted chapter titles
I am using titlesec to define the formatting of Chapter titles. At present, footnote symbols within these titles appear in the same format, but my author would like them to be somewhat smaller.
The ...
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“songs” package, chord size
I am trying to write an A6 songbook in latex(just getting started).
For chords above lyrics I use the songs package, but the chords looks bigger than the lyrics.
Can't find anything in the ...
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Small text in table does not recalculate line spacing
I'm using tabu to create a table that has a couple multi-line cells (the m style). However, when I set the line spacing outside the table, it seems that the space between lines is not recalculated in ...
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How can I make large mathcal symbols?
I've seen bigints for big integral symbols, but I'd like to make a large \mathcal{F} for a Fourier transform. Is there a good way to do this?
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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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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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Getting small font size in all text of a table
I want to have small font size in a whole table. I tried with \small{table code} and \begin{\small}{table code} \end{small}, but it doesn't work. Maybe, I must use a package or any method; please I'm ...
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How to scale all fonts (in the whole document) by certain factor or percentage?
Is there a way to scale the font size of all text in a LaTeX document by a certain factor, something like \scalealltext{factor=0.95}?
Edit: Text should reflow, so as to fit (a bit) more text on a ...
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Declaring document-wide font size outside of the document class command
I have a document, where I want two versions: one versions 10pt size and another version, 2 page to a side 12pt. So I currently have:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,oneside,openany,article]{memoir}
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What is the height above the baseline to the middle of an open bracket?
So I have a rule pointing at the middle of the following text. I have achieved this with the following code:
\newlength{\Fraiseheight}
\setlength{\Fraiseheight}{1ex}
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