[texhax] Massive font sizes

[dch]

Martin Schröder wrote:

>On 2006-02-04 13:08:15 +0000, dch wrote:
>  
>
>>The & that comes out is large, but nowhere near page-size.  Do you know 
>>how I can make this font available in size 426?
>>    
>>
>
>It works here with lmodern. :-)
>
>Try this:
>
>\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>\usepackage{type1cm}
>\pagestyle{empty}
>\begin{document}
>\fontsize{15cm}{15cm}\selectfont
>\&
>\end{document
>
>Note that type1cm only works with OT1 encoding; for T1 you should
>use lmodern.
>
>Best
>    Martin
>  
>
I get the following output running with that:

[david at localhost tex]$ latex big2.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(./big2.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, 
ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/type1cm.sty) (./big2.aux))
Runaway argument?
{document
! File ended while scanning use of \end.
<inserted text>
                \par
<*> big2.tex
           
?


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Many thanks for all your help with this - I'm sure this must be possible 
somehow.