[Tugindia] [texhax] A macro needed for small italics shape relative to the main bodu text size

[Radhakrishnan CV]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:41 AM, E. Krishnan <ekmath at asianetindia.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, swami at mun.ca wrote:
>
>> I need to write a macro, say \sit (for small italic size)
>> so that \sit{xxxx} should put the "xxxx" in a smaller italic
>> shape "relative to" the body text font size (and not an absolute small italics
>> size). If I write the macro as follows

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> Please have a look at the "relsize" package. The documentation is in the
> style file itself, at the beginning and the end.

Here is a trivial macro that can reduce the font size to 85% of
current font size. If the requirements are not so complex,
\reducefontsize macro might be of help.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{times}

\makeatletter

\def\reducefontsize{%
  \@tempdima\f at size pt
  \@tempdimb\@tempdima
  \multiply\@tempdimb by 85
  \divide\@tempdimb by 100
  \@tempdimc\@tempdimb
  \multiply\@tempdimc by 12
  \divide\@tempdimc by 10
  \fontsize{\the\@tempdimb}{\the\@tempdimc}\selectfont
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\parindent=0pt
\parskip=10pt

\Huge This is text set in \verb+\Huge+ font size.
 \bgroup\reducefontsize This is reduced font size\egroup.

\LARGE This is a text set in \verb+\LARGE+ font size.
 \bgroup\reducefontsize This is reduced font size\egroup.

\Large This is text set in \verb+\Large+ font size.
 \bgroup\reducefontsize This is reduced font size\egroup.

\large This is text set in \verb+\large+ font size.
 \bgroup\reducefontsize This is reduced font size\egroup.

\normalsize This is text set in \verb+\normalsize+ font size.
 \bgroup\reducefontsize This is reduced font size\egroup.

\small This is text set in \verb+\small+ font size.
 \bgroup\reducefontsize This is reduced font size\egroup.

\footnotesize This is text set in \verb+\footnotesize+ font size.
 \bgroup\reducefontsize This is reduced font size\egroup.

\end{document}

Best regards
-- 
Radhakrishnan