[OS X TeX] big-size cm fonts
Rick Zaccone
zaccone at bucknell.edu
Tue Jun 15 16:55:00 EDT 2004
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
>>Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81
>>California Institute of Technology
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