Questions tagged [scaling]

{scaling} is about scaling document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be scaled.

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Rescaling a math symbol?

I am trying to rescale a math symbol while using the amsbook package. At first I was using the relsize package, but it creates clashes with the AMS packages: Amsart with algorithm2e introduces extraneous text into pdf file with Texlive 2011. Then, I…
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How to scale entire document including Maths symbols?

I'm trying to make a cheat-sheet for my Math class. I wonder is there a way to scale the entire document so that I can fit more formulas and theorems into it. It doesn't need to be super tiny though. I tried tiny font, but it still waste too much…
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How to make a \big-type command for “normal” size

I know this request sounds totally ridiculous at first, but I need it for technical reasons. I would like a custom scaling command like \big, \Big, \bigg, \Bigg, but one that corresponds to “normal size”. We could call it \normalscaling or something…
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Block of text that surrounded by vertically spanning parentheses

For my beamer slides, I like to have a command that centers a block of text and surrounds it by parentheses whose vertical size grows as the number of lines in the text grows. I currently have the following: \NewEnviron{remarkblock}[1][]{% …
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Reduce size \bigcup

I want to reduce size \bigcup_{n=1}^\infty? How can I do it? I tried \newcommand*{\medcap}{\mathbin{\scalebox{0.75}{\ensuremath{\bigcap}}}
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Scalebox a maths letter

I am trying to rescale a letter in the Display. I tried to use the \scalebox{#}[#]{\mathscr{H}} (\mathscr{H} is the letter I am trying to rescale). But I think that only works for non-maths letters? There are questions on here about resizing symbols…
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Scale all figures by the same value

In my copy editing work I often need to resize figures to make them fit the pagewidth (remove "Overfull \hbox..."). I always try to keep the author's layout and the proportion between the figures. Here's a…
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Scaling listings in beamer

This answer scaling latex objects advises to use \resizebox to scale Latex objects. However, this approach fails when rescaling a listing in beamer: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{listings} \begin{document} \begin{frame}[fragile] …
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Scale lowercase symbol to uppercase height

I would like to type a company name which contains a greek letter, e.g. Name\:$\alpha$, but I would like the lowercase greek symbol to be the size of a capital letter, which I have hacked using Name\:\scalebox{1.6}[1.6]{$ \alpha $}. Here are the…
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Rescale tabular within math environment

I have made two tabulars, inside a pmatrix, inside a math environment (displaymath). The outcome doesn't fit on the page, does anybody know how I can scale my code, so that it…
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How to make x and y, which stand after the vertical line, have the same size as the small \psi and x, which stand in \partial

\begin{equation*} \psi(\omega) = \left.{\psi}\right|_{\omega=0} + \omega \cdot \underbrace {\left.\dfrac{d\psi}{d\omega}\right|_{\omega=0} }_{\left.\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial x}\right|_{\substack{{x =0} \\ {y=0}}}} \,+ \,\dfrac{\omega^2}{2}…
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Why Does Latex Consider My Overlaid Accented Title to be in Math Mode?

Consider the…
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scaling latex objects

Imagine that I have a wide table that does not fit into page: \begin{tabular} Some very wide table \end{tabular} Can I scale this object without recurring to adjusting the font size?
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A error about \scalebox{h-scale}{text} code

I want to shrink the table below with \scalebox code, but I am getting an error. What could be the reason? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{makeidx} \usepackage{amsmath,…