I'm having some troubles defining the size of the titles, subtitles, sub-subtitles and the text of my document. Basically, I'd like to control the size. As you can see in my example, the "Sub-subsection" is smaller than the actual text, and that doesn't look fine to me.
\documentclass[twoside,parskip=half]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\bibliographystyle{nature}
\usepackage[latin1,utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[hmarginratio=1:1,columnsep=30pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper,left=25mm,right=25mm, top=25mm, bottom=25mm, headsep=10mm}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage{abstract}
\renewcommand{\abstractnamefont}{\normalfont\bfseries}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\renewcommand\thesection{\Roman{section}.}
\renewcommand\thesubsection{\arabic{subsection}}
\titleformat*{\subsection}{\normalfont\bfseries}
\titleformat*{\subsubsection}{\normalfont\selectfont}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[C]{Title $\bullet$ Course $\bullet$ 2014}
\setlength{\skip\footins}{10mm}
\title{\fontsize{24pt}{5pt}\selectfont\textbf{Title}}
\subtitle{\fontsize{16pt}{20pt}\selectfont\textbf{Subtitle}}
\author{
\large
\textsc{Name Surname}\\[3mm]
\normalsize University name \\
\normalsize \href{mailto:name@domain.com}{name@domain.com}
\vspace{-3mm}
}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{fancy}
\begin{abstract}
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\end{abstract}
\vspace{7mm}
\begin{tabular}{p{1,5cm}p{12,00cm}p{1,5cm}}
&\textbf{Keywords}: keyword 001 $\cdot$ keyword 002 $\cdot$ keyword 003 $\cdot$ keyword 004\\
\end{tabular}
\vspace{11mm}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\section{Section 1}
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\section{Section 2}
\subsection{Sub-section 1}
\subsubsection{Sub-subsection}
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\subsubsection{Sub-section 2}
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\end{multicols}
\end{document}
Any suggestions to improve my document?
Best Answer
Generally you are best off using the mechanisms offered by the document class and standard size commands for fonts. The subsubsection font in your example is the same size as the normal text, if you want it bigger, trying using
\large. In the KOMA classes you do this via\setkomafont, e.g.or if you only want to change the size and not the style
If you wished to set the font size explicitly then it would be
or
Note the arguments to
\fontsizeare just numbers (denoting pointsizes) not dimensions, the second number should be larger than the first, it indicates the line skip to be used for this font. The basic font size for the document is specified by the afontsizeoption to the documentclass, e.g.As other have said you should not use
fancyhdrortitlesec. For your purposes the latter is replaced by simple\setkomfontcommands, the former by thescrlayer-scrpagepackage.As regards the
geometrypackage, in your case you seem to want to specify the margins precisely, in which case using this package is the only option.Here is an implementation of some of these things in your example.
In answer to additional points in the comments
to get a line under the header use
headsepline=trueeither as a document option or perhaps better aswhere you are defining the heading style
to increase the space to footnotes, use the
footnotsepoption of thegeometrypackage. This is equivalent to setting\skip\footins, but keeps your page specification in one place.the
titleelement has size\hugeby default and the above font changing commands do not affect this.