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From: awtron@strawber.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Walter Tron)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Changing the 'References' font size
Keywords: thebibliography, font
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Date: 1 Oct 90 17:33:32 GMT
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In article <2956@idunno.Princeton.EDU> awtron@chocolat.Princeton.EDU () writes:
>I am currently trying to change the font size of the 'References' title
>that appears when I execute the '\thebibliography' command at the end of
>my document (whose style is 12pt article).  I realize that this will involve
>issuing a \renewcommand to change some definitions in the appropriate
>.sty files, but all of my attempts have resulted in TeX syntax errors.
>Does anyone out there in netland have a solution to this problem?
>
David M. Jones (dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu) answered my question.  Basically,
one embeds the definition of \thebibliography in the preamble, with the
necessary redefinition.  The key to this all is to surround this definition
with a \makeatletter .... \makeatother pair, otherwise you get the TeX
syntax error that I originalyy experienced.  My thanks goes out to him.

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