{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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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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Is it possible to use 12 pt font size in the achemso package?
I am typesetting a report using the achemso package, because it is required that my report be in American Chemical Society (ACS) format. However, I am not submitting to an ACS journal. It is required ...
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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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How to change the fontsize of the \part command
I am using the report style and I would just like to change the fontsize of the \part command. How do I do it ?
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Set caption font size in memoir
How do I set the default caption font in a memoir?
I tried:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[font=small]{caption}
But that gives me a warning:
Class memoir Warning: You are using the caption ...
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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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Top aligning text contents of two parboxes or minipages
I'd appreciate help top aligning the contents of \parboxes containing texts of different sizes as shown in the following graphic. Because one of the texts has a different size it appears to hover ...
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how to make subscripts automatically choose font size
Would it be possible to make subscripts in math mode automatically choose a smaller font when a subscript is in uppercase?
E.g., if I have sA, the "A" would appear quite big. Is it possible to tell ...
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Magnify document
I've written about a hundred or so lectures in LaTeX, all of which include a separate preamble document for consistency and ease of maintenance. Now that I have a SMARTboard in my classroom, I would ...
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Selecting fontsize in B5 book
I used
\documentclass[twocolumn]{book}
\usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=1.5cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
to make A4 paper size book and then join two A4 pages to one A4 page landscape (that ...
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How to get an even smaller font?
I wanted to amplify the effect of specifying the font size. So I tried:
{\tiny\tiny Super tiny text!}
But that doesn't seem to work. I needed suggestions to achieve the same goal.
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Changing font size of code in lhs2tex
I am a LaTeX / Haskell newbie and this question involves lhs2tex. Please let me know if I am posting on the wrong forum. I am writing a report in which I have fragments like:
\begin{figure}
...
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Smaller font for the reference section
This is a follow up question to How to reduce the space between the author block and paper text? sig-alternate.cls
I am using the template sig-alternate.cls, but I need a smaller font size for the ...
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Changing font option in Latex document doesn't seem to change the font size [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to specify font size less than 10pt
I use Texmaker for most of my LaTeX-ing but I'm running into some trouble trying to change the default font for the whole ...
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Is there a way to set the font size in points? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
LaTeX — specify font point size?
I'm working with beamer and one of my headlines is too big if I use \Large, and too small if I use \large. I'd like it to be just ...
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Beamer: Changing the font size of the references using the shrink argument causes an error
I'm trying to change the font size of the references using the shrink of the frame argument.
However, if I run this code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
...
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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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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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How to set a small default font size with beamer?
I use beamer class with newcent package for the font. I set
\documentclass[8pt]{beamer}
at the top of my tex file. But I think the font is still too large.
In my beamer theme, I tried to set :
...
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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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Fontsize in Bibliography [closed]
I am trying to write a report where I have a lot of citations to put in. I am using \documentclass[a4paper 12pt]{article} and \usepackage{cite} (cite package) for building the bibliography. The ...
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How do I change the font size in elsarticle class?
First I used elsart and as usual the text font was 12pt, title font was 17pt bold, author font was 14.5pt and the address font was 11pt. but in elsarticle class, text font is 10pt, title is 14.5pt and ...
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How to set a default font to a page in latex? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to specify font size less than 10pt
How to set those fonts to my page in latex: font is Computer Modern sans serif with normal size 8 pt?
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Different sizes of font available in table?
I have a table and it appears I only have two options when it comes to font size: large and small. There should be a medium option, correct? I get an error when I replace small or large with ...
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What leading size should I set for 18pt font size?
I use \fontsize{18pt}{20pt}\selectfont comand because I want 18pt fontsize. Does rule fontsize+2 always apply? Say for 20pt font leading will be 22, 32 for 30 and so on.
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How to typeset micro fonts?
Here is the scenario: I'm having a exam and I'm allowed to take 1 printed/written page (cheat sheet) to exam. I want to prepare a cheat sheet with small fonts utilizing the entire page.
I tried ...
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Strange latex font warnings with fontsize, tikz, fontspec
This is mostly the same code as in:
Problem with itemize indentation in minipage in tikz node
... but with a few changes - notably, it uses fontspec with Junicode font, and so needs to be compiled ...
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Beamer \institute text size change to small
I am using beamer with the \institute command.
I have several institutes and just want to change the font size of the institutes and not the whole document. I would like the institutes to be much ...
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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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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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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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How to increase the size of footnote counters used
I am writing a document in LaTeX for someone who is visually impaired, which means that I have to increase the font sizes for them. How do I increase the size of the font used for the footnote ...
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tikz nodes: centering with small font
I am trying to create tikz nodes with centered text, but changing fontsize. Unfortunately, while normally-sized text is nicely centered inside the nodes, the smaller text is not centered, but shifted ...
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Beamerposter scale parameter, text font size and title font size
I want to create a poster with beamerposter with pagesize 240cm (width) x 120cm (height) with two columns.
Will the following line of code produce what I need?
...
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votes
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Incorrect line spacing when using \Large in a center environment
When I enclose text with line breaks within a center environment, there is extra space after the first line, but only if the font size has been changed.
The following working example prints the same ...
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change title font and text font for preparing IEEE poster
I had prepared a paper for an IEEE Conf. Now, it's required to prepare a poster for presenting my work.
Some of guidelines of preparing poster are as follow:
Poster Space: Plan on using an area ...
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Changing the font size with \emph
In the .tex document I created, the emphasis command \emph{text} is frequently used (note that I use \documentclass{llncs} ). However, the .pdf preview shows the emphasized text as smaller that the ...
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Shrinking text in a node, such that the minimum width and minimum height are the actual width and height of the node
I want to shrink the text in a node such that the minimum height and width are the actual width and height of the node.
I found this
Shrinking text to the width of a node within a tikzpicture,
but I ...
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Beamer: change size of figure caption
I am creating a beamer presentation and I would like to change the size of the caption under the figures. I am using the Madrid theme.
I tried the obvious way:
\caption{\scriptsize{Text of the ...
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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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How do I resize the text of bibliography entries without changing the heading (with BibTeX)?
I'm using BibTeX to create my bibliography with the final command
\bibliographystyle{mn2e}
\bibligraphy{biblio}
I'd like the entries to be footnotesize so I use
{\footnotesize
...
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votes
2answers
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Beamer, fix-cm math mode, - no asterisk?
I'm using beamer to make a presentation. In order to fit a large table onto a slide, I'm using fix-cm and \fontsize to customize the font size and spacing. The table is produced by estout, which ...
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Need smaller than \tiny
I use the following to reduce the size
{\tiny
$$
\begin{array}{|c||c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
but it is still too large. How can I further reduce the size?
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votes
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Bibliography title fontsize problem with BibTeX and the natbib package
I'm trying to change the fontsize of the Bibliography title to a normal size but I can't do it.
I already try (without results):
\let\chapter=\chapter
\let\chapter=\section %works, but all the ...
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votes
1answer
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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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Scale/Resize a single letter in mathmode with its subscript/superscript unchanged
Is there a way to do this? Currently I am using something like the following to do the job on scaling of a single letter in an equation:
\[
\int_{\Omega} (u - \text{\Large $\Pi_{\Omega}$} u) v \, dx ...
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Obtain the size between \huge and \Huge
How do I create a new sizing command command, \semiHuge, that is defined as being the size that lies between \huge and \Huge?
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How to specify an arbitrary (possibly non-integer) font size in LaTeX
I may be wrong, but it seems to me that I cannot obtain non-integer (or non-preloaded) font sizes (say, 9.876pt) using \fontsize. If this is true, how do I do this in LaTeX? Do I have to resort to ...
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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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Parentheses size
How can I change parenthesis size in whole document?
I have bunch of 'coc(o)nunt' or 'co(c)onut' words.
Standard parenthesis seems too big, footnotesize looks ok.
Replacing any ( with ...
