Text Formatting ⇒ Font Size of the Document Title

[dasatti]

Hi,

I want to set the font size of the main title to 14pt. I am using the »article« class.

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,twocolumn]{article}

How can I do this?

[localghost]

You can patch a helper macro for the \maketitle command by the etoolbox package.

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@maketitle}{\LARGE}{\Large}{}{}
\makeatother

\title{Document Title at \texttt{14pt}}
\author{dasatti}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

With a document font size of 10pt this sets the size for the title to exactly 14.4pt.


Thorsten

[dasatti]

Yes, I had the idea about the 14.4pt title size. I wanted to know if there is some way to make it exactly 14pt in size but I guess 14.4pt will also work for me.

[localghost]

Selection of an arbitrary font size is possible. The patch has to be modified a bit.

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\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@maketitle}{\LARGE}{\fontsize{14}{17}\selectfont}{}{}
\makeatother

But I think the difference is almost not noticeable.

[cgnieder]

In deed there is no visible difference (except for the leading); compare \fourteenpt with \Large:

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[left=0pt,right=0pt]{geometry}

\makeatletter
\newcommand*\fourteenpt{\fontsize{14}{15.5}\selectfont}
\newcommand*\totht[1]{\dimexpr\ht#1+\dp#1\relax}
\newcommand*\leading{{\setbox0\hbox{\strut}\the\totht0}}
\newcommand*\fntsize{{\setbox0\hbox{Mg}\the\totht0}}% total size of the letters Mg
\newcommand*\showsize[1]{{#1 {\ttfamily\string#1} (\f@size pt) \fntsize/\leading}\par}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\showsize\tiny
\showsize\scriptsize
\showsize\footnotesize
\showsize\small
\showsize\normalsize
\showsize\large
\showsize\fourteenpt
\showsize\Large
\showsize\LARGE
\showsize\huge
\showsize\Huge
\end{document}

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Regards