Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Change font size for tables

[pnemeth1981]

Hello Latex Community,

I am typing a dissertation and came across a problem. I started the whole thing with 10pt fonts and have many sideways tables which fit to the page only with the \tiny size. Now I must change the font size to 11pt globally, this automatically scales up my tables, off the page. The 11pt \tiny font is larger than the 10pt \tiny. Is it possible to keep font size at the original 10pt for tables locally while the global font size is 11pt? Any help is appreciated!

I tried:

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\fontsize{10pt}{20pt}
\selectfont

...table...

\fontsize{11pt}{21pt}
\selectfont

for a table, but did not help.

cheers
Peter

[gmedina]

Hi,

...Is it possible to keep font size at the original 10pt for tables locally while the global font size is 11pt?..

you could try something like the following:

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\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\begin{table}[!ht]
  \small
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{p{7cm}}
    \hline
    \lipsum[1]\\\hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{A test table.}
  \label{tab:test}
\end{table} 
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

You could also use \fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont instead of \small in the code above.

[pnemeth1981]

Hi Gmedina,

Thanks for the quick answer. My document class is report:
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
and I don't want to change that. I would like to keep the template in its original form and avoid the Grad School's notices. "book" compiles with some error messages, but apparently returns the same thing.

\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont did not do what I expected, actually I haven't seen any change. But tweaking with \small, \tiny and by shortening some long lines I could squeeze my tables in the margin.

Thanks,
Peter