Questions tagged [fontsize]
{fontsize} is about selecting a document's standard font size (with class options like 12pt), changing relative font sizes within a document (with macros like \small or \large), and defining or modifying {macros} related to font sizes.
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KOMA-script scrreprt: Chapter Heading Size Customisation
This is a continued question from my previous thread I am setting up LaTeX to write my thesis using scrreprt.
I have implemented with success all the advised and suggested solutions and have tried to ...
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How to change font family in footnote?
How can I change font family (and size) for footnotes? Would be great to see a small example.
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Appearance of \tiny or \scriptsize Fontsize in LaTeX (horizontal stretch)
The fontsize commands for fontsizes smaller than \normalsize stretch the aspect ratio of the letters or stretch the letters itself plus their spacing instead of properly scaling the text in width and ...
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Redefine the default depth of superscript and subscript document-wide
The behavior of subscript and supscript operator _ and ^ is like a blackbox to me, I am curious if I could redefine the behavior of them globally for a document.
I searched the forum and found ...
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fancyhdr plus fontsize 12pt causes varying vertical alignment of sections
Looking at the example provided in Different headers for different chapters, I noticed something strange: The vertical alignment of sections is varying. I was able to strip the effect down to the ...
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How to create a newcommand for fontsize?
I am trying to create a command to modify fontsize with one parameter, it seems that the paramater is not expanding properly:
\newcommand{\mycfs}[1]{\fontsize{#1pt}{1.2*#1pt}}
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Incorrect line spacing when using \Large in a center environment
When I enclose text with line breaks within a center environment, there is extra space after the first line, but only if the font size has been changed.
The following working example prints the same ...
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What is the second value in \fontsize for?
I know that it is possible to change the size of the font of the section titles in a document using \usepackage{sectsty} and the command \sectionfont; for example, to set the section titles' font to ...
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How to change title font size in moderncv?
How can I change the title font size (First name, Family Name) in a resume written using moderncv package?
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Make equations large
I'm including some equations in my document, but want them to appear very large. I have them in display mode, as opposed to inline mode, but can't seem to find any way to make them larger.
I've tried ...
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Need smaller than \tiny
I use the following to reduce the size
{\tiny
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\begin{array}{|c||c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
but it is still too large. How can I further reduce the size?
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Beamer: Changing the font size of the references using the shrink argument causes an error [duplicate]
I'm trying to change the font size of the references using the shrink of the frame argument.
However, if I run this code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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Different font sizes for different rows in table
I want to put different sizes of fonts (smaller) into different rows of my LaTeX table. I found that it is possible to have different font sizes for different columns of this post. Is there any simple ...
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Get current font size as length
I understand from THIS question that the current font size can be determined.
But how can I convert this to a length value?
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\newlength{\mytextsize}
%This ...
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Change default font size while using fontspec
I'd like to set the main font size (i.e. all text which isn't a heading or something else with an explicit font size) to a particular font size, in this case, 9.5pt.
I can't use the default package ...
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