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Re: Huge Characters

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From: Paul De Bra
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1989 23:23
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In article <15795@mimsy.UUCP> cclin@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Chih-Chen Lin) writes:
>Is it possible to print very large characters (as in posters) by LaTeX?
>The largest one I can get is by using 12pt and \Huge, but it's not big 
>enough.  Any easy way to do it?  Thanks.

Tex comes with characters at a limited number of magnifications.
There is a font called "cminch", producing characters that are one inch
high at \magstep0.

Huge characters can always be generated with metafont of course.

Paul.
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