Text Formatting ⇒ font size problem

[grnivan]

Hi,

I'm writing a document. my code is:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}

\title{TESI FINASS}
\author{Ivan Granito}

I need to enlarge the font size but if I put 14 in the first command line the character in the pdf is always of size 10.

Have You some advice?

Tanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

I recommend to use scrbook instead of book. It's a KOMA class, which can be seen as extension of the standard classes, have a look at the manual. With this class, many things are easier, and so is choosing an arbitrary fontsize, which you could give in pt and even in mm and other units.

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\documentclass[a4paper,fontsize=14pt]{scrbook}

Another possibility would be using a class of the extsizes bundle.

Within the text, you could choose any font size you like. However, the base font size is important, since various font sizes and spacing depend on it, for a consistent design.

Stefan

[cgnieder]

The book class does not support 14pt font size IIRC. There are several possibilities, though:

1. switch to a class that does support it, like memoir or the koma-script classes (scrbook would be the replacement for book then)
2. use a class from the extsizes bundle like extbook
3. load the scrextend package from the koma-script bundle which extends some of KOMA's features to other classes

Example for 2:

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\documentclass[a4paper,14pt]{extbook}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}

\title{TESI FINASS}
\author{Ivan Granito}

\usepackage{lipsum} for dummy text

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\lipsum

\end{document}

Example for 3 (beware of some possible warning messages):

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\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}

\usepackage{scrextend}
\changefontsizes{14pt}

\title{TESI FINASS}
\author{Ivan Granito}

\usepackage{lipsum}% for dummy text

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\lipsum

\end{document}

Regards

PS: Oops, just seen that Stefan already replied

[Stefan Kottwitz]

PS: Oops, just seen that Stefan already replied

You gave very good additions, such as using memoir or scrextend as further options,

Stefan