[OS X TeX] big-size cm fonts

[Wendy McKay]

Dear Gianluca

If you take a look at page 9 of the documentation on
http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/marslide/v1/marslide-doc-prt.pdf

You will see the how to increase the font size.
You should not have to redefine font commands unless the ones
specified by \Huge, \huge,  etc.  do not give you what you need.

Here are the sizes that you get from the regular commands hopefully.

ComputerModern Font Sizes
\HUGE 65pt,
\Huge 55pt, \huge 40pt,
\LARGE 36pt, \Large 32pt, \large 28pt,
\normalsize 25pt, \small 20pt, \scriptsize 17pt,
\footnotesize 17pt, \tiny 12pt,

Hope this helps.
/// wendy

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Gianluca Gorni wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> I am trying to get a student of mine to use marslides package
> on a Windows PC with TeXlive. I have run into font problems:
> some large-size fonts are replaced with much smaller ones.
> 
> I isolated the problem into the following LaTeX source:
> 
> \documentclass{report}
> %\usepackage{times}
> \makeatletter
> \newcommand\slideHuge{\@setfontsize\slideHuge{55}{66}}
> \makeatother
> \font\verylarge=cmr17 at55pt
> \begin{document}
> \slideHuge{trial1}
> \verylarge trial2
> \end{document}
> 
> which behaves badly on Windows TeXlive, gw-teTeX and Textures:
> the "trial1" is typeset small, with the warning
> 
> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/m/n' in size <55> not available
> (Font)              size <24.88> substituted on input line 14.
> 
> Still, the "trial2" made with the bottom-level \font
> mechanism does work. It means that size 55 does exist,
> although one cannot access it with \slideHuge.
> 
> Also, using the "times" package both "trial1" and "trial2"
> come out fine and big as expected.
> 
> Provisionally I told the student to use times, because that way
> the large sizes come out fine. Formulas will be still typeset in cmmi,
> I am afraid.
> Luckily enough we can live without \slideHuge formulas.
> 
> Any idea on how to get huge-size cm fonts?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
>              Gianluca Gorni
> 
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