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How to do bold letters and larger font with certain words in Latex?
Latex Tips: Bold Letters and Larger Fonts
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Discussion Overview
The discussion focuses on formatting text in LaTeX, specifically how to create bold letters and adjust font sizes for certain words. It includes technical explanations and practical tips for achieving desired text formatting in documents.
Discussion Character
- Technical explanation
- Conceptual clarification
Main Points Raised
- One participant inquires about methods for making specific words bold and larger in LaTeX.
- Another participant suggests using commands like \textbf and \mathbf for bold text, and various size commands such as \scriptsize, \tiny, \large, \Large, \huge, \Huge, and \HUGE, emphasizing that the appropriateness of these commands increases with their size.
- A participant notes that using \Large affects all text rather than just a single line, expressing a desire to only enlarge a specific part of the text.
- Another participant clarifies that size commands operate within a group, recommending that to change the size of only a portion of the text, it should be enclosed in its own group.
Areas of Agreement / Disagreement
Participants present various methods and tips for text formatting, but there is no consensus on the best approach for selectively enlarging text. The discussion remains open with multiple perspectives on the use of size commands.
Contextual Notes
Some limitations include the need for clarity on how grouping affects text size and the potential for misunderstanding the scope of size commands.
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\textbf (<-- use for a good reason)
\mathbf
\scriptsize \tiny \large \Large \huge \Huge \HUGE (<-- use for a very good reason -- the farther to the right you go, the better the reason should be
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\mathbf
\scriptsize \tiny \large \Large \huge \Huge \HUGE (<-- use for a very good reason -- the farther to the right you go, the better the reason should be
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When I do \Large for example, it makes everything large. But I just want a line to be large.CompuChip said:\textbf (<-- use for a good reason)
\mathbf
\scriptsize \tiny \large \Large \huge \Huge \HUGE (<-- use for a very good reason -- the farther to the right you go, the better the reason should be
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These size commands act within the group. To make only a part of the text a different size, just put it in its own group:
this is an example of {\Large a piece of large text while} this is small.
this is an example of {\Large a piece of large text while} this is small.
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