Newsgroups: comp.text.tex

>     I'd like to redefine the font sizes, maybe by overriding the LaTeX
> definitions, to use something like (default: 10pt):
>
> \LARGE: 16pt  (default 17pt)

From size.clo copy

\makeatletter
\newcommand\scriptsize{\@setfontsize\scriptsize\@viipt\@viiipt}
\newcommand\tiny{\@setfontsize\tiny\@vpt\@vipt}
\newcommand\large{\@setfontsize\large\@xiipt{14}}
\newcommand\Large{\@setfontsize\Large\@xivpt{18}}
\newcommand\LARGE{\@setfontsize\LARGE\@xviipt{22}}
\newcommand\huge{\@setfontsize\huge\@xxpt{25}}
\newcommand\Huge{\@setfontsize\Huge\@xxvpt{30}}
\makeatother

in your preambel. Put \makeatletter …. \makeatother around. Change \newcommand to \renewcommand.

Then change the values after e.g. \Large. The first (the roman looking) is the fontsize, the second the \baselineskip. You could look at size11.clo and size12.clo for examples for your requested fontsizes.

Ulrike Fischer