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From: joseph@jetson.uh.edu (Joseph Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Question about \TeX font sizes
Message-ID: <8318.279fe991@jetson.uh.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 14:17:20 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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I would like to be able to use large fonts intermittently in a small
plain \TeX document (Memo's and such). Since the document is small, I
don't want to use \LaTeX. I looked in our `tex' library, but we didn't
have any examples of how to do this. When I try using \magnification=1200
it blows up the whole document, which is what the \TeXbook says it will
do. Unfortuneately, I have been unable to find anything on how to leave
the whole document size alone, and just enlarge specific parts, like a
title. I know if I keep looking I'll find it, but it may take a long
time since I'm new to \TeX.

As an example of what I want

%---begin doc---
\centerline{\fontsize32pt{MEMO}}
\bigskip \hrule \bigskip
\noindent To: You

\noindent From: Me

\noindent Subject: You are all fired.

\bigskip \hrule \bigskip

Everyone is fired. Please get your \#\%\%'s out of here now.

\bigskip
\hskip{4in} {\fontsize24pt{Mr. Me}}
\bigskip \hrule \bye
%--- end doc ---

Please send any responses to joseph@jetson.uh.edu
Thanks!!   -Joseph Davis