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From: joe@oregon.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Making math mode fonts match text mode font sizes
Message-ID: <20097.270759b5@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 21:59:00 GMT
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Organization: University of Oregon
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Assuming you are using plain TeX, you can easily redefine your default font
simply by naming a new font. Thus, for example, since ten point is a little
small for me, I routinely set the default font to be Computer Modern Roman
twelve point. 

However, this has some unexpected side effects in that it doesn't redefine
the size of math mode $...$ and $$...$$ stuff.

I know I can tinker with \textfont, \scriptsize and \scriptscriptsize to 
handle this problem for the math mode families, but is there any easier way 
to handle this problem?

Thanks,

Joe St Sauver (JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU or JOE@OREGON)
Statistical Programmer and Consultant
University of Oregon