Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Change the font to any size

[tarektarek]

Hi;
I asked before about how I can change the font size to any size. I had an answer that I must use the extsizes package. The problem is that I want for example:

new home to stay in (in font size 16pt)
and then later in the document I want to change the font size to 12 pt
Could you please show me what the commands will be?

Thanks in advance

[Juanjo]

You had the answer in the last post of that thread, given by balf. Use \fontsize{16pt}{20pt}\selectfont. To simplify things you may consider to define a command like

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\newcommand{\bigsize}{\fontsize{16pt}{20pt}\selectfont}

So you can write:

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{\bigsize This text is written at 16pt}

Since the default font size you want is 12pt, just add this option to \documentclass. Change to 16pt whenever appropriate through the above \bigsize command.

[Rakshath]

what is that 20 pt

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Rakshath,

welcome to the board! See Low-level font commands in the manual, it's the line spacing, the distance between the base of two consecutive text lines.

Stefan