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 medium.
The beginning of my table looks like this:
\begin{table*}[ht]
{\small
\hfill{}
\small
\begin{tabular}{|p{3.5cm}|p{8cm}|p{5cm}|}
How do I get a universal font size for the table that is not huge or too small to read?
There's no \medium font size between \small and \large; you have \normalsize (which is the default font size). The standard font size switches are: \tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, \small, \normalsize, \large, \Large, \LARGE, \huge, and \Huge.
By the way, you only need one font switch command inside the table and braces are not required since table forms a group, so you can simply say something like this:
\begin{table}
\small
\begin{tabular}{p{3.5cm}p{8cm}p{5cm}}
text & text & text
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\scriptsize, and \footnotesize. Also, for even finer control, as long as the current font supports the desired size, you can use \fontsize{<size>}{<baseline>}\selectfont (in a group); as in {\fontsize{6}{7.2}\selectfont text here}.
Commented
Aug 13, 2013 at 0:21
table environment you can say, for example \begin{table}\fontsize{6}{7.2}\selectfont...\end{table}.
Commented
Aug 13, 2013 at 0:43
If you need to fine tune the size of a table, you can include it in a scaleboxfrom the graphicx- or graphics-package and scale the table to fit. If you need more options, you can use the adjustbox-package.
A warning: Arbitrary adjustments of different tables will result in different font sizes. This may look ugly.
