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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Huge Characters
Keywords: LaTeX
Message-ID: <153@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 89 20:41:03 GMT
References: <15795@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (Donald Hosek)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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The largest type size available from LaTeX is 30pt. You can load 
larger fonts (within the restrictions of what you have on your system)
with the command \newfont{\cs}{font} where \cs is a LaTeX command which
should select the font and "font" is the specifier for the font (e.g.
cmr10 at 12pt). Ask your TeX maintainers what size fonts are available.

You might have more success using SliTeX to make posters; its fonts have
normalsize where LaTeX has huge. Most of what works in LaTeX also works in 
SliTeX. (notable exceptions are sectioning commands and \sc).

-dh