General ⇒ \DeclareMathSizes doesn't work with 11pt text?

[chenein]

I'm trying to get DeclareMathSizes to work, and it seems to work fine with 10 and 12 point text, but not with 11 point text.

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\DeclareMathSizes{11}{55}{15}{15}
\DeclareMathSizes{12}{55}{15}{15}
\begin{document}
Hello this is regular text. This should be really big: $a=5$
\end{document}

This works fine. But change the documentclass to 11pt and it no longer works. I started down this road because with 11pt documentclass I seem to be getting 10pt math fonts. Perhaps this is related?

I'm on a mac with mactex-2007 distribution.

Thanks!

[chenein]

Hmm... an overwhelming response

If no one has a magic fix I'm wondering if someone would try to replicate the problem. I'm wondering if something is just screwed up in my distro.

Cheers,
Colin

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Colin,

here I just change to the text font size of 11pt, you will see that is works for 11pt too:

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\DeclareMathSizes{11}{55}{15}{15}
%\DeclareMathSizes{12}{55}{15}{15}
\begin{document}
\fontsize{11pt}{13.6pt}\selectfont
Hello this is regular text. This should be really big: $a=5$
\end{document}

As \small corresponds to \@xipt, that's equal to 10.95pt, not to 11pt, try this:

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\DeclareMathSizes{10.95}{55}{15}{15}
%\DeclareMathSizes{12}{55}{15}{15}
\begin{document}
\small
Hello this is regular text. This should be really big: $a=5$
\end{document}

Similar if you switch to the 11pt option for report:

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{report}
\DeclareMathSizes{10.95}{55}{15}{15}
\begin{document}
Hello this is regular text. This should be really big: $a=5$
\end{document}

Stfan

[chenein]

Thanks Stefan,

the 10.95 number was what I was missing. I'm using your bottom item.

Can you explain why in math mode the fonts are slightly smaller without tweaking? When I use math mode text it is a bit smaller:

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{charter}
\begin{document}
a\emph{a}$a$$a_2$
\end{document}

This corrects it:

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{charter}
\DeclareMathSizes{10.95}{11.3}{7.7}{5.5}
\begin{document}
a\emph{a}$a$$a_2$
\end{document}

But I feel I shouldn't have to do this. Is there a "proper" way to fix the problem?

Regards,
Colin

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Colin,

the size will be equal if you change the order of the packages:

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\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}

Perhap you don't need the first line.

Stefan

[chenein]

I understand! Thanks very much.