On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:39:13AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> If anyone can figure out how to change the default fontsize to 10.5, I'd be
> very interested in that. I could have gotten LyX in at a major publisher, but
> one of their requirements was half sized fonts and I didn't know how to do
> it.
\usepackage{type1cm}
\renewcommand\normalsize{%
\@setfontsize\normalsize{10.5pt}{12pt}
\abovedisplayskip 10\p@ \@plus2\p@ \@minus5\p@
\abovedisplayshortskip \z@ \@plus3\p@
\belowdisplayshortskip 6\p@ \@plus3\p@ \@minus3\p@
\belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
\let\@listi\@listI}
\normalsize
Also, make sure that dvips use Postscript fonts instead of bitmap fonts.