[OS X TeX] Increasing font size in math mode

[David Derbes]

On Dec 14, 2011, at 6:51 PM, R Martinez wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your prompt reply. Unfortunately, it does not work because \zcit is a math-mode command and the \large, \Large, etc., commands only work for text. If I could define a command that uses  Zapf Chancery in text mode, that would solve my problem.

How about \text{\large \zcit{A}} in MathMode?

Just try $\text{\large \zcit{A}}$ and see if that does the job for you.

David Derbes
U of Chicago Laboratory Schools

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Raul Martinez
> 
> 
> On Dec 14, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Michael Welsh wrote:
> 
>> On 15/12/2011, at 1:10 PM, R Martinez wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have spent a fair amount of time scouring documents, books, the web, to no avail. Asking the list is my last resort.
>> 
>> Use one of the following (they should work, and are in increasing size):
>> 
>> {\large \zcit{A}}
>> {\Large \zcit{A}}
>> {\LARGE \zcit{A}}
>> {\huge \zcit{A}}
>> {\Huge \zcit{A}}
>> 
>> You'll probably want to make it a macro, so something like
>> 
>> \newcommand{\bigcit}[1]{\ensuremath{\large \zcit{#1}}}
>> 
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