Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Font Size in Headings, Abstract, Thanks and other Parts

[farnaz]

Hi,
I want to set font size in pt unit (not Large and ...) for heading, section, subsection, abstract.
However, I have 2 problem with them:
1-\fontsize is not working.
2- some of them have not optional part for setting font size.
can anyone help me?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Farnaz,

1-\fontsize is not working.

perhaps you don't use it in the right way. How do you use it, how is your code?

2- some of them have not optional part for setting font size

Use \fontsize and \selectfont afterward to change the font. This change has effect until the end of the environment or group or another font size changing command. \normalsize returns to the standard size too.

Stefan

[farnaz]

For example in author:

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\author{\fontsize{11}{13}...

The command \fontsize does not change font anyway.
Or in \section command, I put font size in optional part. However, it does not work:

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\section[12pt]{Kinematic Mode;}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

As I mentioned, always use \selectfont after \fontsize.

This works:

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\author{\fontsize{11}{13}\selectfont Author}

The optional argument of \section is not for font settings, it can be used to put a version of the section title into the table of contents and into the headers, such as

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\section[short title]{long title in heading in text}

So this would work:

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\section[Kinematic Mode]{\fontsize{12}{13}\selectfont Kinematic Mode}

However, I would not change font sizes or shape in the text or its headings. Instead, I would define a command such as

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\newcommand{\sectionsize}{\fontsize{12}{13}\selectfont}

and use this command later in the text. This way you have the size definition once in the preamble, not many times in the text, which makes adjustments easier. The same for other settings.

And I would go further, redefining the \section command or a related macro instead of using a size command in argument, the heading text, using the titlesec package or redefining macros of the document class.

Stefan

[farnaz]

Thanks for your practical and useful answer.
I will try it soon.