# [OS X TeX] Change font size in mathmode

Maarten Sneep maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Tue Apr 12 11:08:12 EDT 2005

On 12 apr 2005, at 17:01, Ralph Martin wrote:

>
> On 12 Apr 2005, at 3:41 pm, Josep M.Font wrote:
>
>> El 12 abr 2005, a las 14:17, Ralph Martin escribió:
>>
>>>>> I have a horrid large matrix which I really want to go on one line
>>>>> in a displayed equation. I put \small at the start of the
>>>>> equation, and this did what I wanted but I got a warning that
>>>>> \small is invalid in mathmode.
>>>
>>> Suggestions so far
>>>
>>>> {\small $your_matrix$ }
>>>
>>> Sorry, that does not work.
>>
>> It works for me, both for displayed formulas and on-line formulas. If
>> it is not small enough, \footnotesize makes (almost) everything
>> smaller, \scriptsize smaller, and \tiny even smaller...
>>
>
> I'll rephrase my reply.
>
> It DOES work, BUT it gives me a warning that \small is invalid in math
> mode, which is what I started off by saying.

Note that \small is *outside* math mode.

{\small
\begin{math}
% matrix goes here
\end{math}
}

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