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From: lang@PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Redefining of Latex-commands.
Keywords: Latex commands.
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Date: 6 Oct 89 20:18:08 GMT
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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
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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