[texhax] Massive font sizes

[Lars Madsen]

dch :

> Martin Schröder wrote:
>
>> On 2006-01-19 23:49:48 +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>> 
>>> Look for grfguide.{tex,ps,pdf} on your system.
>>> 
>> 
>> No. :-)
>> 
>> Try this:
>> 
>> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>> \usepackage{lmodern}
>> \pagestyle{empty}
>> \begin{document}
>> \fontsize{15cm}{15cm}\selectfont
>> \&
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> or \usepackage{type1cm}
>> 
>> Best
>>    Martin
>> 
> Hi Martin,
>
> Sorry about the delay.. been rather busy with stuff.  I tried your code and 
> ran it through latex and it complained about a missing lmordern.sty - so I 
> hit enter and it ran through but with a warning:
>
> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/cmr/m/n' in size <426.79134> not available
> (Font)              size <35.83> substituted on input line 6.
>
> The & that comes out is large, but nowhere near page-size.  Do you know how I 
> can make this font available in size 426?
>
> Many thanks
> David.
>

does the 'fix-cm' package  help?


/daleif

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