Type sizes and changing type size in math mode

• The standard type sizes in Latex are:

tiny, scriptsize, footnotesize, small, normalsize, large, Large, LARGE, huge, Huge

• To change the size within the math environment, try the following
  $$ \mbox{\Huge $ 3x+3=\mu$ } $$
• You can define a short alias command for creating bold math notation in the document preamble:
  \newcommand{\bld}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
• Using \boldmath with subscripts can cause the subscript typesize to be too large; I often define a new command in the document preamble: \newcommand{\blds}[1]{\mbox{\scriptsize \boldmath $#1$}}

Keywords: bold, math, notation, subscript, type size, Latex

Last modified 11/19/05.