What was the error message?
The manual for sectsty seems to suggest that it may depend on what other
packages you have loaded and the sequence in which you load them.
On 6 April 2018 at 16:07, Bernt Lie <bernt....@usn.no> wrote:
> Font scaling… I found a suggestion on scaling, and inserted:
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> \usepackage{scalefnt}
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> \scalefont{2}
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> In the preamble. Didn’t change anything. The discussion said that this
> should only change the body font size, and not the section headings. To
> scale section headings, the suggestion was to add package sectsty, and the
> set the scaling for each section heading. I got an error message when I did
> \usepackage{sectsty}.
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> -B
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> *From:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> *On Behalf Of *Paul
> A. Rubin
> *Sent:* Friday, April 6, 2018 21:43
> *To:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> *Subject:* Re: LyX & article style?
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> On 04/06/2018 01:11 PM, Bernt Lie wrote:
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> A couple of more tweaks I need to do…
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> 1. Is there an easy way to suppress page numbering?
> 2. I have changed font family to Times Roman. Is it possible to use
> odd body font sizes? The template I’m trying to emulate uses 10.5 pt font…
> ☹
> 3. Is it possible to specify the Times Roman font also for the
> document **title**? (The title looks as if it uses computer modern, or
> something… but I may be wrong.)
> 4. Can I remove the extra space that is above the title? (There *
> *seems** to be extra space…)
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> -B
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> 1. Several. Google "latex eliminate page numbers" for a selection.
> 2. This is tied to the font you are using. Google "latex scale font"
> for explanations and solutions.
> 3. If the rest of the document is Times Roman, I think the title will
> also be. You can always check the LaTeX source code by clicking View > Code
> Preview Pane. If you do not see some other font package being loaded, nor
> any unusual LaTeX commands surrounding the title text, it should be Times
> Roman.
> 4. I don't think there is very much vertical space added above the
> title. Viewing the PDF for a test document with the first two pages side by
> side, I can barely see the difference (one to two lines of text?). That
> said, if you really want to move the title up, google "latex reduce space
> above title".
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> Paul
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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
