Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 1995/06/05

>I have to write an article, using a 10pt font.
>
>The title has to be 16pt high and another line neede a 12pt font.

Knuth's fonts typically go up in size from 10pt by factors of 1.2 per step (there's also often a sqrt(1.2) step which is just < 1.1).

Thus most TeX-based packages offer 10pt, 12pt, 14.4pt and 17.28pt sizes as a matter of course.

>Usinf the commands ?large and ?Large, I don't know how big these fonts
>will be.

In a 10pt document, \large is 12pt, \Large is 14.4pt and \LARGE is 17.28pt; 16pt doesn't (of course, given the above) figure.

>Is there any way to define a special fontsize?

In LaTeX2e (you don't say what you're using), the size selection against the list of sizes defined to be available in the .fd file for the font (though if you're using a PostScript built-in font, the allowed range is continuous).

If you're using one of Knuth's fonts, you've rather more excitement on your hands: compare OT1cmr.fd (for example) with the command documentation in fntguide.tex (part of the distribution).

Robin

> (Robin Fairbairns) wrote:
>
> RF>for your 16pt font, you should say \fontsize{16}{20}
>                                                    ^^
> You better try \fontsize{16}{20pt}.