Text Formatting ⇒ Customized Font Size

[Sventimir]

Hello everybody, I'm new here.

And for the beginning I've got a problem. First of all it doesn't recognize commands changing font size (e.g. \large, \small and so on). When I define document class as "minimal", an error of undefined control sequence occurs, otherwise the code is compiled properly, but font size is left unchanged all the same.

Secondly I tried to use \fontsize{x}{y} command, but then another error occured:

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! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   \aftergroup 
l.24 \center \textbf \fontsize
                              {12}{15} 1

What can I do? I suppose some package is missing, but no idea what could it be. Thanks for any help.

[localghost]

Never ever use the »minimal« class! It does not define anything including the mentioned font size commands. The second issue might be related to that. But due missing information caused by an absent minimal example that is difficult to diagnose.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Sventimir]

Well, here's the code (after replacing {minimal} with {book}):

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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{polski}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[polish]{babel}

\begin{document}
\vspace*{\fill}
\center \textbf \huge 1
\vspace*{\fill}
\end{document}

The point is to produce a huge number 1 in the center of the sheet. My TeXWorks however compiles a normal 12pt. "1" there. What's the problem?

When I produce something like that:

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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{polski}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[polish]{babel}

\begin{document}
\vspace*{\fill}
\center \textbf \fontsize{50}{100} 1
\vspace*{\fill}
\end{document}

it returns an error:

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! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   \aftergroup 
l.10 \center \textbf \fontsize
                              {100}{200}1
? 
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again> 
                   \aftergroup 
l.10 \center \textbf \fontsize
                              {100}{200}1
? 
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   p
l.10 \center \textbf \fontsize
                              {100}{200}1
? 

What's going on?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

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\center \textbf \fontsize{50}{100} 1

• Consider using \centering instead. \center actually means an environment and should be used like \begin{center} ... \end{center}.
• \textbf requires an argument, such as \textbf{1}. If you don't give an argument, use the declaration \bfseries instead.
• \fontsize{...}{...} should be followed by \selectfont.

Stefan

[Sventimir]

Now its working. Thank you very much. But what sort of argument does "\textbf" require? It must be something new for I didn't find it in any manual or course and I checked a few of them.

[checatavo]

hello everybody i am working on latex and now i have a problem when I want to increase the size of the fonts, maximum size is 25 but I want more than that. what i can do whit this problem, any ideas??

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

That's no problem. For example, this works fine for me:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\fontsize{60}{70}\selectfont Huge text
\end{document}

Btw. for a new question please create a new topic, don't attach to an existing one. However it's good to add a link to the older topic, for further information. As you can see, the topic has already been marked as solved, with the check mark, so there's less chance that somebody reads your additional question - that's why writing a new topic is better.

Stefan