LaTeX And Fonts


Table of Contents

Using none-standard font sizes 
Using none-standard font sizes 
Using none-standard font sizes 
TeX font metric 
LaTeX and fonts 
Resolution 
Using Postscript fonts 
TeX and LaTeX font selection example 
Defining none-standard fonts 
How to get an arbitrary FONT SIZE 
loading the font 
Expressing Magnification in TeX 
Font Declarations in LaTeX 
re-size fonts 
The New Font Selection Scheme 
LaTeX: Fonts 
LaTeX Fonts 
Font Size 
Changing Fonts 
Changing Fonts Temporarily 
Font Color 
Available Fonts for TeX 
Metafont Fonts 
PostScript Fonts 
Font HOWTO - TeX / LaTeX 
9.1 A Quick Primer on LaTeX/TeX fonts 
9.2 Adding Type1 fonts 
TeX Font Guide 
How to define a fontsize (12pt) 
How to define a fontsize (12pt) 
changing font size in 2e 
Font size definitions 
sans serif 
Changing font in LaTeX 
Changing font in LaTeX 
strikethrough and cancellations 
diagonaled text 
diagonaled text 
A 'delightful' font 
A 'delightful' font 
Font for thesis 
Next step in Tex font using 
Next step in Tex font using 
Next step in Tex font using 
Type 1 CM fonts 
Why anything but Type 1? 

Using none-standard font sizes 

Subject: Create a fancy section heading layout

http://www.latex-community.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1510&p=6675

> the section number is too small (\Huge here), and when I try to change it to
> something bigger, using ex. \fontsize it doesn't work!

Just replace the \huge command with the following sequence.

\fontsize{36}{42}\selectfont

Don't forget to use the \textbackslash selectfont command to activate the new font size. The second argument of the \fontsize command is the interlinear space and should have about additional 20\% of the first value.

documented on: May 24, 2008, localghost

Using none-standard font sizes 

 

I've tried your suggestion with

\fontsize{36}{42}\selectfont

which works fine. The problem is that I want an even bigger size, say 100 or something. The size doesn't seem to get any larger than 40.

 
 -- idaham

try the fix-cm package:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{fix-cm}
\begin{document}
\fontsize{100}{120}\selectfont Huge text
\end{document}

documented on: Jun 19, 2008, Stefan, LaTeX Community Moderator

Using none-standard font sizes 

 
> try the fix-cm package

Stefan, you're a lifesaver!

This worked perfectly! I don't know how long I've been trying to get it to work without success… Thank you so much! Cheers,

 
 -- idaham

You should get the desired result with any postscript font, too. Just try some font packages from the CTAN Catalogue. http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#fonts

documented on: Jun 19, 2008, localghost