Re: big-size cm fonts

 June 15, 2004

Wendy, the link below did not work for me.

Best Regards, Jerry

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> Dear Gianluca
>
> If you take a look at page 9 of the documentation on
> http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/marslide/v1/marslide-doc-prt.pdf
>
> You will see the how to increase the font size.
> You should not have to redefine font commands unless the ones
> specified by \Huge, \huge,  etc.  do not give you what you need.
>
> Here are the sizes that you get from the regular commands hopefully.
>
> ComputerModern Font Sizes
> \HUGE 65pt,
> \Huge 55pt, \huge 40pt,
> \LARGE 36pt, \Large 32pt, \large 28pt,
> \normalsize 25pt, \small 20pt, \scriptsize 17pt,
> \footnotesize 17pt, \tiny 12pt,
>
> Hope this helps.
> /// wendy
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Gianluca Gorni wrote:
>
> >  Hello!
> >
> >  I am trying to get a student of mine to use marslides package
> >  on a Windows PC with TeXlive. I have run into font problems:
> >  some large-size fonts are replaced with much smaller ones.
> >
> >  I isolated the problem into the following LaTeX source:
> >
> >  \documentclass{report}
> >  %\usepackage{times}
> >  \makeatletter
> >  \newcommand\slideHuge{\@setfontsize\slideHuge{55}{66}}
> >  \makeatother
> >  \font\verylarge=cmr17 at55pt
> >  \begin{document}
> >  \slideHuge{trial1}
> >  \verylarge trial2
> >  \end{document}
> >
> >  which behaves badly on Windows TeXlive, gw-teTeX and Textures:
> >  the "trial1" is typeset small, with the warning
> >
> >  LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/m/n' in size <55> not available
> >  (Font)              size <24.88> substituted on input line 14.
> >
> >  Still, the "trial2" made with the bottom-level \font
> >  mechanism does work. It means that size 55 does exist,
> >  although one cannot access it with \slideHuge.
> >
> >  Also, using the "times" package both "trial1" and "trial2"
> >  come out fine and big as expected.
> >
> >  Provisionally I told the student to use times, because that way
> >  the large sizes come out fine. Formulas will be still typeset in cmmi,
> >  I am afraid.
> >  Luckily enough we can live without \slideHuge formulas.
> >
> >  Any idea on how to get huge-size cm fonts?
> >
> >  Thanks in advance,
> >
> >               Gianluca Gorni
> >
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