How to change the FONT SIZE
There are two basic ways to change font sizes in Latex:
- To change the basic font size used all the way through your paper, put either
"11pt" or "12pt" in your \documentclass line. For example, if you had:
\documentclass{report}
but you wanted to use 12pt type (10pt is the default), you would change it
to:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
NOTE: 12pt is an option to the "report" class, not a separate
package, so doing
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{12pt}
will *not* work.
- To change just a part of your paper into a different font size, you can use
some of the sizing environments. In increasing size, they are:
\tiny
\scriptsize
\footnotesize
\small
\normalsize
\large
\Large
\LARGE
\huge
\Huge
The case is important in these commands. Also, in some document styles,
some of these commands may produce the same size font. For example, if you
wanted to just make a small part of your text in a different font, you would
use something like:
This is in normal text, while these words are in {\large large text}.
Or, if you wanted to put a larger region in a different size, you'd use
something like:
\begin{small}
this will all be in small text
this too.
etc..
\end{small}
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