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From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Changing Math subscript fonts in LaTeX...
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Date: 18 Feb 89 18:03:09 GMT
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In-reply-to: gonnason@enelk.uucp's message of 17 Feb 89 00:02:38 GMT


Well the first thing you should do is find out who made this rule and
tell him/her to figure it out.

As this person may be dead or some such little bit of inconvenience
you may want to try this.

I am going to assume that you are using article at 12pt.  If you
aren't using 12 point then you should switch; this way the scripts
will a bit smaller than the 12 pt normal text.

If you aren't using article then simpley replace all references to
article with book or report and replace all references to art12 with
bk12 or rep12.

You are going to make yourself a style file, lets call it dumb.sty for
dumb rules ok?

In art12.doc around line 58 you will find

\def\scriptsize{\@setsize\scriptsize{9.5pt}\viiipt\@viiipt}
\def\tiny{\@setsize\tiny{7pt}\vipt\@vipt}
\def\large{\@setsize\large{18pt}\xivpt\@xivpt}
\def\Large{\@setsize\Large{22pt}\xviipt\@xviipt}
\def\LARGE{\@setsize\LARGE{25pt}\xxpt\@xxpt}
\def\huge{\@setsize\huge{30pt}\xxvpt\@xxvpt}

you should change this while following the rules below

% Each size-changing command \SIZE executes the command
%        \@setsize\SIZE{BASELINESKIP}\FONTSIZE\@FONTSIZE
% where:
%   BASELINESKIP = Normal value of \baselineskip for that size.  (Actual 
%                  value will be \baselinestretch * BASELINESKIP.)
%
%  \FONTSIZE     = Name of font-size command.  The currently available
%                  (preloaded) font sizes are: \vpt (5pt), \vipt (6pt),
%                  \viipt (etc.), \viiipt, \ixpt, \xpt, \xipt, \xiipt,
%                  \xivpt, \xviipt, \xxpt, \xxvpt.
%  \@FONTSIZE    = The same as the font-size command except with an
%                  '@' in front---e.g., if \FONTSIZE = \xivpt then
%                  \@FONTSIZE = \@xivpt.
%

You may want to try something like this:

\def\scriptsize{\@setsize\scriptsize{12pt}\xpt\@xpt} % I changed this
\def\tiny{\@setsize\tiny{12pt}\xpt\@xpt}             % and this
\def\large{\@setsize\large{18pt}\xivpt\@xivpt}
\def\Large{\@setsize\Large{22pt}\xviipt\@xviipt}
\def\LARGE{\@setsize\LARGE{25pt}\xxpt\@xxpt}
\def\huge{\@setsize\huge{30pt}\xxvpt\@xxvpt}

To use it set your documentstyle to

\documentstyle[dumb]{article}
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