hi,
I need to set the font size in millimeters in my LaTeX document. how can I do that?
thank you!
+12
A:
Are you using Type 1 fonts (that is, infinitely scalable fonts)? If not, you'll need to do something like \usepackage{lmodern} (that selects my preferred fonts, the Latin Modern version of Computer Modern). Then just enter a command like
\fontsize{8mm}{9mm}\selectfont
and the following text will be in a font 8 mm high on a 9 mm baseline. If you need to set the size of more than a small amount of text in this way, you will probably have to go into the document class definition -- good luck; I stay as far away from those as I possibly can.
kquinn
2009-05-20 20:45:44
To be more specific, the sizing parameters (which adjust when you type \small, \large, etc.) are defined for the standard classes in size{10,11,12}.clo. Make a new one of them and hack away...
Will Robertson
2009-05-21 09:27:52
A:
Hi
Try \setlength{\textwidth}{Wmm} \setlength{\textheight}{Hmm}
where W is text width in mm and H is text height in mm.
cheers
Andriyev
2009-05-20 20:47:32