Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 1993-04-15 14:24:18 PST

the question was:

> When LaTeX generates labels in the {\tt letter} document style using
> the {\tt \makelabels} command, it chooses a rather small font.
> I would like to increase the size of the lettering used in this label.
> What is the easiest way of doing this?
> (Can it be done at all?)

i think the best summary was provided by timothy murphy, who stated:

The font-size is determined in letter.sty (in \startlabels). You could just copy letter.sty to your own directory, and change the font-size in \startlabels .

\def\startlabels{\labelcount\z@
\pagestyle{empty}%
\let\@texttop\relax
\topmargin -50\p@
\headsep \z@
\oddsidemargin -35\p@
\evensidemargin -35\p@
\textheight 10in
\@colht\textheight  \@colroom\textheight \vsize\textheight
\textwidth 550\p@
\columnsep 25\p@
\ifcase \@ptsize\relax
  \normalsize % change this to \large
 \or
  \small % change this to \normalsize
 \or
  \footnotesize % change this to \small
 \fi
\baselineskip \z@
\lineskip \z@
\boxmaxdepth \z@
\parindent \z@
\twocolumn\relax}

The 3 cases correspond to 10pt, 11pt or 12pt in the \documentstyle heading.

thank you very much everyone that answered my call! for everyone that was also curious as to how to make this change, here it is!

thomas beuthe