[OS X TeX] big-size cm fonts

[Wendy McKay]

Rick 
Thanks.  Sorry about the bad link.
The documentation links start  on this page:

	<http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/marslide/v1/>

then download whatever is needed. There is a texpower version
available as well as a version for printing.


-- wendy



On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Rick Zaccone wrote:

> This link works
> 
> <http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~wgm/WARM/slides/marslide/v1/docs/
> marslide-doc-prt.pdf>
> 
> Rick
> 
> >  June 15, 2004
> >
> >Wendy, the link below did not work for me.
> >
> >Best Regards, Jerry
> >
> >---------------------------------------
> >
> >>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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> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Wendy G. McKay
> >>Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81
> >>California Institute of Technology
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Wendy G. McKay
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