Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Font Size of the continuous Text

[Superfox_il_Volpone]

Hi,

I want to change the font size of the content to 14pt. I've tried with the extreport class from the extsizes bundle.

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\documentclass[14pt,a4paper]{extreport}

But this will scale also the equations, the tables, the table of content, the verbatim, the captions, the chapter margins, etc. while I would like to scale only the content text, not everything.


Regards
- s.fox

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That's a meaning of a class option for the font size: besides adjusting the base font, other font sizes are scaled in a matching way. It's for people who want that.

If you would just change the base font size, you could redefine \normalsize. But this has also effect on math formulas, for example, since the size is treated the same. It's also valid for text in tables. You could change that again... here's an example:

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\documentclass{report}
\let\stdsize\normalsize% saves the default standard size
\makeatletter
% now we change the base text font size
\renewcommand*{\normalsize}{\@setfontsize{\normalsize}{14}{16}}
\makeatother
\everydisplay{\stdsize}% uses the default standard size for displayed formulas
\begin{document}
Text
\begin{equation}
  ax^2 + bx + c = 0
\end{equation}
\end{document}

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Stefan