[texhax] Massive font sizes

[dch]

Lars Madsen wrote:

> 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
>
> ``You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could 
> and should do for themselves. ''
>  -- Abraham Linco
> ln


Sorry - I get package not found with that one too.  My version of TeX is:

[david at localhost tex]$ latex --version
TeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159
kpathsea version 3.4.5