General ⇒ Float text and front/color

[Jchen066]

hi all,

Is anyone can tell me how to change the font/size/color/effect of the text in the float text book? prefer to use Neutra Display Titling as font. 36pt for the right box and 24pt for the left box. Attached the picture of the final outcome for reference

Below is the code I used:

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\documentclass[12pt,english]{article}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% PACKAGES
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% GEOMETRY - Provide the geometry settings of document
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
	left = 28mm,
	right = 28mm,
	top = 50mm,
	bottom = 28mm,
	bindingoffset = 0mm,
	headheight = 103pt,
	headsep = 15mm,
	footskip = 0mm
}


% TIKS & PGFPLOTS - Allows the creation of graphics
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

% ESO-PIC - Allows floating text (and perhaps pictures) to be placed in either the foreground or backgrounds
\usepackage[pscoord]{eso-pic}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% COMMANDS
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\newcommand{\titleTextBox}[3]{% {horizontal pos}{vertical pos}{text}
	
	\setbox0=\hbox{#3}% Put <stuff> in a box
	\AddToShipoutPictureFG*{\put(\LenToUnit{#1\paperwidth},\LenToUnit{#2\paperheight}){\makebox[0pt][c]{\textbf{\huge\textcolor{white}{\begin{tabular}{c}#3\end{tabular}}}}}
	}
	
}

% CREATETITLEPAGE: Creates the title page.

\newcommand{\createTitlePage}{
	
	% Background picture
	
	\tikz[remember picture,overlay]
	\node[opacity=1,inner sep=0pt] at (current page.center){
		\includegraphics[
		width=\paperwidth,
		height=\paperheight
		]
		{C:/Users/jiech/Documents/Tuition/pictures/pictures/title_background.jpg}
	};
	
	% Floating text boxes
	
	\titleTextBox{0.78}{0.475}{Year 11 \\ Mathematics \\ Extension 1}
	\titleTextBox{0.3}{0.17}{Volume (i) \\ Term 1 Week 7 \\ Theory Book}
	
	\thispagestyle{empty} % Clear all additional styles including page numbers
	\clearpage % Clear additional contents
	\setcounter{page}{1} % Start couting from the second page
}



\begin{document} 
	
	% Create title page

	\createTitlePage
	


\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi!

In this \titleTextBox command, there are already some text formatting commands, such as \huge\textcolor{white}. Your own formatting commands can go there. To be flexible (different sizes or styles), you could use further parameters. Here, I change to 6 parameters and use them in the macro as #4, #5, and #6.

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\newcommand{\titleTextBox}[6]{% {horizontal pos}{vertical pos}{text}
  \setbox0=\hbox{#3}% Put <stuff> in a box
  \AddToShipoutPictureFG*{\put(\LenToUnit{#1\paperwidth},\LenToUnit{#2\paperheight}){\makebox[0pt][c]{\textbf{#4\fontsize{#5}{#6}\selectfont\textcolor{white}{\begin{tabular}{c}#3\end{tabular}}}}}
  }
}

Later on, one could call it by

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\titleTextBox{0.78}{0.475}{Year 11 \\ Mathematics \\ Extension 1}{\sffamily}{36}{42}
\titleTextBox{0.3}{0.17}{Volume (i) \\ Term 1 Week 7 \\ Theory Book}{\itshape}{24}{30}

Those options mean horizontal position, vertical position, text (as before), and font type, font height, base line height.

Instead of \sffamily or \itshape you could use another font selection command, such as for the desired title font.

Stefan

[Jchen066]

Thanks Stefan.

When I increased the number for #5 and #6... The text size hasn't increased accordingly. Is that because font 36 is the larges one available

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It seems to depend on the font.

When I add

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\usepackage{lmodern}

I can use 80 and 90 and more and it gets bigger.

Stefan

[Jchen066]

It seems to depend on the font.

When I add

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\usepackage{lmodern}

I can use 80 and 90 and more and it gets bigger.

Stefan

thanks a lot. it works