[pdftex] [urban.simoncic at gmail.com: pdftex font size]

[John R. Culleton]

On Friday 29 June 2007 16:52, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:12:59PM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:
> > On Friday 29 June 2007 05:09, Oleg Katsitadze wrote:
> > > ----- Forwarded message from Urban Simoncic
> > > <urban.simoncic at gmail.com> -----
> > >
> > > I wonder to know how to set general font size for document,
> > > created by pdftex. I am new to pdftex, but I used latex for
> > > some time and I set general font size simply as option for
> > > \documentclass. Unfortunately, if I set \documentclass[a4paper,
> > > 13pt]{article} to pdftex, 13pt has no effect.
> >
> > Each font you use has its own size, set when you describe the
> > font. I have a shortcut method for dealing with font sizes etc.
> > in a file I call fonts.tex:
> >
> > \def\fontfam{bch}
> > \newdimen\fontsize
> > \fontsize=10pt
> > \baselineskip= 1.1\fontsize
> > \font\rm \fontfam r8r at \fontsize
>
> Sigh, the OP meantioned "\documentclass", he is using *LaTeX*!
> In LaTeX package "extsizes" exists. As large size options it
> offers 14pt, 17pt, and 20pt.
>
> But anyway, the problem is not specific for pdfTeX at all.
> Thus this is the wrong list for this kind of questions.
> Better places for asking are the newsgroup comp.text.tex
> or AFAIK the mailing list texhax.
>
> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>

It is entirely possible that he is using the command "pdftex" where in 
fact he should be using the command "pdflatex".  I thought about that 
possibility later. 

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