I'm using the mathpazo package so I can set arbitrarily large font sizes for a poster. I set my font sizes in the preamble as such:
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{36pt}{48pt}\selectfont}
\renewcommand{\large}{\fontsize{64pt}{100pt}\selectfont}
But when I use \large, the line space is 48pt not 100pt as it should be (note that 100pt is not the actual value I want on my poster, this is just for demonstration purposes here).
If I change the line space value of \normalsize to 100pt, then when I use \large the line space is 100pt.
Complete code:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[letterpaper,top=2cm,bottom=2cm,right=2cm,left=2cm]{geometry}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\setlength{\parindent}{0cm}
\linespread{1}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{36pt}{48pt}\selectfont}
\renewcommand{\large}{\fontsize{64pt}{100pt}\selectfont}
\begin{document}
test 1 test 2 test 3 test 4 test 5 test 6 test 7 test 8 test 9
{\large test 1 test 2 test 3 test 4 test 5 test 6 test 7 test 8 test 9}
\end{document}
Resulting document:
But if I use:
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{36pt}{100pt}\selectfont}
\renewcommand{\large}{\fontsize{64pt}{100pt}\selectfont}
I get:
Hmmm...
\largefinishes before the paragraph ends. Add\parbefore the final brace. – Andrew Swann Jan 08 '15 at 21:39mathpazo(in particular) so you can use arbitrary sized fonts. You just need to make sure you are using scalable fonts. But that's recommended in almost all cases anyway. – cfr Jan 09 '15 at 00:37