[OS X TeX] big-size cm fonts
Wendy McKay
wgm at cds.caltech.edu
Tue Jun 15 17:25:19 EDT 2004
Rick
Thanks. Sorry about the bad link.
The documentation links start on this page:
<http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/marslide/v1/>
then download whatever is needed. There is a texpower version
available as well as a version for printing.
-- wendy
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Rick Zaccone wrote:
> 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
> >
> >---------------------------------------
> >
> >>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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Wendy G. McKay
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