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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Subject: Re: Larger Fonts than \Huge and or \HUGE...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.171319.221@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <1992Dec15.020539.28989@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:13:19 GMT
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- anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo) writes:
-
- >I've tried reading the FAQ, but I'm still confused about creating bigger
- >fonts than I can get with \Huge. Any quick pointers? I need to get
- >characters up to 6" high. Is there a style file for this, or must I get
- >a new set of fonts? Is it possible to blow up a regular font to do this?
-
-
- I'm not sure if I've understood your question correctly,
- but you can always say something like
-
- \font\HUGEPalatino = Palatino-Roman scaled 5000
- \font\HUGEbf = cmbx17 scaled\magstep5
-
- at the beginning of your TeX/LaTeX file,
- and then say {\HUGEPalatino My Own Story} or whatever.
-
- If you are using a PostScript printer and font,
- as eg Palatino-Roman,
- then you needn't worry about PK font files.
- (But I think there is a limit to the magnification allowed in PostScript;
- I'd guess 6in high is too high.)
-
- If you are not using a PostScript printer
- you will have to create a PK font file
- of the appropriate size using Metafont (and gftopk).
- There is a limit also to the size of Metafont glyphs;
- much smaller than 6in, I imagine.
-
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- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
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