[LON-CAPA-users] large formulas

[Mark Lucas]

Thanks guys, I'll play with this some more and see if I can streamline 
things more (I know, time to bite the bullet and actually use style 
sheets).

As I said, I'm trying to use the html in LON-CAPA to deliver 
'transparencies' as well as in-class questions for our response system 
(really just html questions, not full LON-CAPA questions). The tweaking of 
fonts is the pain.

Thanks again!
Mark

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Lars Jensen wrote:

> Sorry, that little piece of latex should be:
> 
> {\huge This is a huge in-line formula \( a = b. \) Here it is in
> display: 
> \[
> a = b
> \]
> }
> 
> Another comment - I think the version suggested by Guy will fail on
> the printout because \Large and \huge etc are not to be used in math
> mode.
> 
> Lars.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Lars Jensen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> > > > <font size="+2"><m>\[\frac{\pi}{42}\]</m></font> should work to get
> > a  
> > > > large displaystyle formula.
> > > 
> > > While this fails to work, this seems to do a reasonable job:
> > > <m>\[\frac{\Large \pi}{\Large 42}\]</m>
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Actually latex adjusts the font size in formulas according to the
> > paragraph in which they are placed. For example if the the font size
> > of the paragraph is huge, the formulas are similarly adjusted. Here is
> > an example:
> > 
> > {\huge This is a huge in-line formula \( a = b. \) Here it is in display: 
> > \[
> > a = b
> > \]
> > }{\huge \par}
> > 
> > As you notice, the display formula doesn't come out in increased size -
> > this is a tth bug. The in-line math comes out large as it should. 
> > 
> > Also if you view the dvi file of the above, both display and inline math
> > comes out large as it should.
> > 
> > Lars.
> > 
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