Re: big-size cm fonts

This link works

<http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/marslide/v1/docs/
marslide-doc-prt.pdf>

Rick

>  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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>>>
>>>
>>
>>--
>>Wendy G. McKay
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