[OS X TeX] big-size cm fonts

[Jerry Marsden]

  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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