Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ how to change the font size in table

[imdadullah]

Dears

I need to have a table with different font size compared to whole document.
how can I do this.

Cells in table also contains math formulas.

Plz guide me.

[frabjous]

There's no trick to it... just use the regular sizing commands, e.g.:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Regular text

\begin{small}% or footnotesize, scriptsize, tiny, etc.
\begin{tabular}{rl}
some text & $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$ 
\end{tabular}
\end{small}

Regular text
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

another possibility, similar to frabjous' suggestion: if you use table environments, you can use \small etc. instead of \begin{small} ... \end{small}, because the effect will be local to the surrounding environment:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Regular text

\begin{table}[ht]
  \small% or footnotesize, scriptsize, tiny, etc.
  \begin{tabular}{rl}
    some text & $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

Regular text
\end{document}

Stefan

[imdadullah]

thanks for quick and best possible guidance. It works.

My other question is
Is there any command for font size to change.
I want to change the size of text block in points not by tiny, footnote size or any other option.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You can use \fontsize, such as

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\fontsize{6}{8}\selectfont text in size 8 pt

Stefan

[Montag]

With a little bit of googling, here you go:
http://superuser.com/questions/227039/l ... point-size
Do read all the answers.