Re: font size smaller than tiny?

Patrick Drechsler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.latex.prosper.user
Organization Dept. of Zoology 2, Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Hendri,

H. P. J. M. Adriaens wrote on 25 Jan 2004 16:20:12 MET:

Patrick Drechsler wrote on 25 Jan 2004 14:35:19 MET:

>> is it possible to define a new command \Tiny (i.e. 6pt)?
>>
>> So far I've only been able to change \FontText globally. I'd
>> like to be able to change it locally.

> you can use the standard LaTeX commands like \small and
> \scriptsize and \tiny. First (after \begin{document}) put the
> seminar command \ptsize{10} to calibrate your normal font size
> to the text (so it can be 11 or 9) and then apply the command
> you want.
>
> If you still want to define \Tiny, do it like this:
> \def\Tiny{\fontsize{6pt}{6pt}\selectfont}
>
> This does not change the current font and can be used
> like \scriptsize in groups like {\Tiny Some text}.
>
> But I would prefer the use of seminar's command \ptsize and the
> LaTeX standards.

Thanks for the quick reply! Works like a charm!

Cheers

Patrick

PS: I posted this message to the newsgroup as well so it's in
the archives.
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