Text Formatting ⇒ large text for whole document (and specifying it in preamble

[dl3fo3]

What commands should I put in the preamble in order to get larger than normal size text?


Background:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\Large
blah blah blah
\end{document}

Putting \Large right after \begin{document} like above works. All texts in the document is large as I wanted.
But the catch is that when I use partial compile feature (compiling only a current section, or only a current paragraph instead of compiling the whole document) of my LaTeX editor, the text size of the resulting dvi is not large, because the \Large command is not in the preamble.

But putting a \Large command in the preamble doesn't work either.

[localghost]

For a font size smaller than 10pt and bigger than 12pt try the document classes of the extsizes package.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[phi]

Or use a document class that comes with support for nonstandard font sizes, like the KOMA-Script classes or memoir.