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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How to specify font size less than 10pt (or more than 12pt)?
I'm trying to make a document that has a very small font throughout, I tried this:
\documentclass[0.5mm, a4paper]{article}
\documentclass[7pt, a4paper]{article}
But it doesn't seem that they allow ...
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What point (pt) font size are \Large etc.?
In the preamble I have:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial}
What can be inferred about the real font pt size for the following?
\tiny, \scriptsize, \...
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Inconsistent line spacing
If I type something like this:
{\itshape\LARGE
Dunt venim dolorerosto do odit
ametum vulla conum dolore
conulput in vero od el
Dunt venim dolorerosto do odit
ametum vulla conum dolore
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Change size of section, subsection, subsubsection, paragraph and subparagraph title
I would like to increase the size of pretty much every headlines, so that it is more prominent than the normal text.
I read about the titlesec package, but can't seem to find good example how to use ...
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How to set the font for a \section title (and chapter etc)
How do I specify the fonts, and general font size, for the titles, chapters and sections in my document
Update:
I can see how my question is confusing.
I use \section and \chapter etc. to organise ...
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Fit text into given box by adjusting the fontsize
I would like to fit text (potentially several paragraphs) into a box of given size. This should be done by adjusting the fontsize of the contained text.
Clarification edit: The given dimensions are ...
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Reducing font size in equation
I wanted to type an equation in LaTeX. But it is too long to fit into one line. It involves big arrays with many columns so I cannot split it. I wanted to reduce the font size so that it can fit in ...
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Setting a document in MS Word-12pt (12bp)
Warning
If you're looking for advice how to make your document look like it's been written in Word, this is most likely not the question you're looking for. This question is mostly of theoretical ...
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How can i change the fontsize with KOMA-script?
I need to change the fontsize to 11pt inside a table environment. The default setting of the document is 12pt using scrartcl, but I need to change this to exact 11pt in the float (the reason is that ...
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LaTeX -- specify font point size?
I want to use a font size other than the standard LaTeX list of tiny, huge, etc. How can I do that?
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How to specify an arbitrary (possibly non-integer) font size in LaTeX
I may be wrong, but it seems to me that I cannot obtain non-integer (or non-preloaded) font sizes (say, 9.876pt) using \fontsize. If this is true, how do I do this in LaTeX? Do I have to resort to ...
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How to change font size for bibliography?
I want to use a smaller font size for the bibliography, e.g., \footnotesize. What is the easiest way to achieve this? I currently do \renewenvironment{thebibliography}... and copy the definition from ...
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How does \fontsize{}{} work?
With the package anyfontsize I can use the command \fontsize{}{}. But the second argument seems to be without any effect. I read there that it is related to the line space. It doesn't work.
\...
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How to use \Large and its variants
I came across a German LaTeX page and found instructions like:
\Large{bit bigger}
{\Large a bit bigger}
\begin{Large} ... \end{Large}
Is it true that all three are "correct"? I only remember the ...
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What is the local height of a capital letter?
How can I get a length, which reflects the hight of a (flat) capital letter?
While \em gives me a width, \ex refers to a lowercase letter and \f@size refers to the overall fontsize including the ...
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