Bill Bennett wrote:
> Unfortunately, it's not obvious from Lamport's book.
> Consider the following :---
> \documentclass[12pt]{report}
> \begin{document}
> {\footnotesize The quick brown fox}
>
> and later
>
> {\tiny The quick brown fox}
> \end{document}
>
> Could anyone tell me, please, what point sizes will be produced
> in these two cases?
LaTeX likes to give you relative sizes. Declarations such as \tiny and
\footnotesize
give you a font size that is relative to the normalsize that you are
presently using
which in this case would be 12pt. The declarations are:
\tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, or \small. \normalsize, \large,
\Large,
\LARGE, \huge or \Huge
(ref
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/info/LatexInfo/02HelpInfoSection/content.html)
Each one is about 20% different in size to the next one so using 12pt in
your doc class
sets "normal size" to be 12pt and then \small will be ~ 10pt,
\footnotesize
around 8pt etc.
If you set your doc class to 10pt ALL of these sizes will scale down 20%
If you have a specific need for a particular font size you can create
your
own declaration to set this and call it say \mySmallSize
Mike
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