f31958a@kaira.hut.fi (Mika Pekka Markus R{s{nen) (10/06/89)
I face the following problem: The \chapter-command of Latex uses too large font size while making the chapter text and that doesn't fit to the style of text. Is there any easy way to redefine the \chapter -command in such a way that latex will use a other font size. I will looking for getting some advise from someone smarter than I.
lang@PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang) (10/07/89)
In article <25678@santra.UUCP> f31958a@kaira.hut.fi (Mika Pekka Markus R{s{nen) writes: >I face the following problem: The \chapter-command of Latex uses too large >font size while making the chapter text and that doesn't fit to the style of >text. Is there any easy way to redefine the \chapter -command in such >a way that latex will use a other font size. I will looking for getting >some advise from someone smarter than I. I'm no LaTeX wizard, but this should work: Look in whatever .sty file you're using (this is from bk12.sty), and find a definition that looks like this: \def\@makechapterhead#1{ \vspace*{50pt} { \parindent 0pt \raggedright \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne \huge\bf \@chapapp{} \thechapter \par \vskip 20pt \fi \Huge \bf #1\par \nobreak \vskip 40pt } } Change the "\huge" in the second line of that definition to something like "\large" or "\Large". If you include such a change in your root file, make sure to surround the change with \makeatletter ... \makeatother ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Francois-Michel Lang Paoli Research Center, Unisys lang@prc.unisys.com (215) 648-7256 Dept of Comp & Info Science, U of PA lang@linc.cis.upenn.edu (215) 898-9511
charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) (10/08/89)
In article <25678@santra.UUCP> f31958a@kaira.hut.fi (Mika Pekka Markus R{s{nen) writes: >I face the following problem: The \chapter-command of Latex uses too large >font size while making the chapter text and that doesn't fit to the style of >text. Is there any easy way to redefine the \chapter-command in such >a way that latex will use a other font size. I will looking for getting >some advise from someone smarter than I. The quick and dirty way to fix this -- assuming that you don't want any type that size in your document -- is to redefine \Huge and \huge to be smaller, like this \let\Huge=\LARGE \let\huge=\LARGE or, perhaps \let\Huge=\Large \let\huge=\Large \let\LARGE=\Large Between the \documentstyle and \begin{document} commands. Otherwise you will have to redefine the commands \@makechapterhead \@makeschapterhead that make the chapter headings and are defined in rep10.sty, bk10.sty, rep11.sty, and so forth. Copy the definitions into "foo.sty" and change the sizes to what you want. Anything in LaTeX can be redefined, but much of it only in a style file. So you have to make your own style file. See pages 85-87 in the LaTeX manual if you want to do this.