{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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Setting default font size in \newfontfamily
When mixing fonts in XeTeX, some fonts have quite different aspects for the same size.
Say, I'm using Linux Libertine as my main font and I want to use Latino Elongated for chapter headings. Latino ...
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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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Adjust row size and division operands in pseudo code
I've just starting using LaTeX (today), because I wanted a professional way to format some pseudocodes, needed for a paper. So this might be a lame question, but can't find anything relevant.
My ...
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Is there any package to automatically select font size and margins to optimize pages?
Suppose I am preparing multi-page handouts using LaTeX.
I don't care much about the font and margins size (while they are reasonable), but I would like all the pages to be filled, ie. avoid 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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Automatically resize lstlisting fontsize in a beamer slide
I have frames of the following format (code followed by an itemize):
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Blah}
\begin{lstlisting}
Five to seven lines of code here...
\end{lstlisting}
...
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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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Changing the font size of a bibliography using BibTeX with the amsrefs package
I am using BibTeX with the amsrefs package to create a bibliography. The output of the bibliography looks to be of a slightly smaller font size that that of the ambient document, and it's imperative ...
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Setting font size AFTER \documentclass
I've seen a few related questions, but can't find one that actually answers this question. What I want to do is to specify the font size AFTER \documentclass. I don't want to change the command line, ...
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algpseudocode font size
I want to change the default font size of the algorithm in algpseudocode environment to small. This is because my algorithm is lengthy and i have page limitations. Please help
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Error: Leading too small: minimum 12pt, saw values as small as 11.9pt
I'm submitting my assignment and get error from the automated format checker.
First of all, I use:
\documentclass[letterpaper,twocolumn,10pt]{article}
Error: Leading too small: minimum 12pt, saw ...
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size of page number in footer
I set the size of the text using \fontsize, but this seems to have no effect on the page number. I want to keep the pagestyle as plain. How can I make the font used to print the page number "grow" in ...
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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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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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Use of \small in the equation environment
My equations are a little too large for the normal eqnarray environment, so I've been using the \small delimiters around the \begin{eqnarray} ... \end{eqnarray}. Unfortunately, this causes the the ...
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Best ratios of number of letters per line and of number of lines per page
I am actually writing a master thesis in LaTeX but I didn't really like the default page style of the document style book. Therefore I tried to make my own page style and I resized manually the ...
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Underline at the same level
I want to underline alpha's and beta's, but at the same level. I mean, I don't want
but . Maybe there is already a command that make it but I couldn't find it. The second image was obtained with the ...
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Changing the baselineskip in marginpar
I’m adding explanations for definitions in the margin paragraph. I have a macro which looks as follows (simplified):
\newcommand*\define[2]{%
\marginpar{{\sffamily\footnotesize\textbf{#1}: #2}}}
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How can I redefine the base font size and change the size of the page number on chapter pages?
I've got a problem when editing a TeX file. I've changed \normalsize to 20pt by
\newcommand{\mysize}{\fontsize{20pt}{\baselinestretch}\selectfont}
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\mysize}
and this ...
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Smaller font size of the algorithm description?
\small or other tag seems can not change the font size of the line number.
The package I use is \usepackage{algorithmic}.
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Custom font size for itemize
I am making a checklist to print, where users can check their answers on a printed paper.
For this I am using itemize and \renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\Box}, \renewcommand{\labelitemii}{\Box} etc..., ...
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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 does one change the math font size? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
how to scale math font only
Similar to how to change math font only, is there a way to change the size of fonts in math formulas?
EDIT -- DUPLICATE OF how to scale math ...
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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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How do I make math symbols bigger?
I'm using Scrivener to convert multimarkdown to Latex and then using texshop to typeset my document.This workflow works great for me except for the fact that I'd like to be able to make certain math ...
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Line spacing with mixed font sizes in itemize environment
I'd like to mix in footnote-sized text with normal-sized text in beamer. The problem is that when I use \footnotesize the line spacing still corresponds to \normalsize spacing. Here's a minimal sample ...
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LaTeX — specify font point size?
I want to use a font size other than the standard LaTeX list of tiny, huge, etc. How can I do that?
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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 change font size in the entire document?
How should I change font size for the entire document? I want to design a presentation and fonts should be larger, all of them.
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How to use \Large and its variants
I came across a German LaTeX page and found instructions like:
\Large{bit bigger}
{\Large a bit bigger}
\begin{Large} ... \end{Large}
Is it true that all three are "correct"? I only remember the ...
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Change font size in figure environment
I'm writing a thesis-like document and I have sketches/figures made in TikZ and plots/graph made in gnuplot with the epslatex terminal. In the gnuplot manual it says if the font is not specified it ...
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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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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 specify font size less than 10pt (or more than 12pt)?
I'm trying to make a document that has a very small font throughout, I tried this:
\documentclass[0.5mm, a4paper]{article}
\documentclass[7pt, a4paper]{article}
But it doesn't seem that they allow ...
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How can I change the font size in math equations?
I find that whenever I'm typing some equations into a document, and the equation gets a bit complex (let's say a fraction in a parentheses, squared, inside a square root, inside a fraction), the ...
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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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Problem with todonotes - “Unknown option 'textsize' ”
I'm writing a document with a5paper formatting (obtained through the geometry package). In particular this means that I have narrower margins.
I really like TikZ and especially todonotes. The problem ...
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Changing fontsize within soul underline
This question is related to http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2218/how-to-create-a-newcommand-for-fontsize.
I would like to change the fontsize within \ul of the soul package. For 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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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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What's the right way to globally change the font size?
Inside of a group, a command like \tiny has effect only until the group ends. One would like to be able to say \global\tiny to have it last after the group ends, but that does not work.
The best that ...
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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 ...
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How to change font size for bibliography?
I want to use a smaller font size for the bibliography, e.g., \footnotesize. What is the easiest way to achieve this? I currently do \renewenvironment{thebibliography}... and copy the definition from ...
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Fonts larger than \Huge?
How can I make text that is larger than the size of the output of {\Huge ...}?
I would like to be able to make text arbitrarily large (even if that is done by some suboptimal scaling routine).
