[Tex/LaTex] Setting default font size in \newfontfamily

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When mixing fonts in XeTeX, some fonts have quite different aspects for the same size.

Say, I'm using Linux Libertine as my main font and I want to use Latino Elongated for chapter headings. Latino Elongated is quite smaller than Linux Libertine for the same font size (11pt).

Is there a way to specify the default font size when loading a font via \newfontfamily, such that all text written using that font is scaled up?

Best Answer

\newfontfamily{\myfamily}{My Font}[Scale=MatchUppercase]
\newfontfamily{\myfamily}{My Font}[Scale=MatchLowercase]
\newfontfamily{\myfamily}{My Font}[Scale=0.8]

Choose what suits you best.

In old syntax:

\newfontfamily{\myfamily}[Scale=MatchUppercase]{My Font}
\newfontfamily{\myfamily}[Scale=MatchLowercase]{My Font}
\newfontfamily{\myfamily}[Scale=0.8]{My Font}

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[Tex/LaTex] Changing the chapter heading size in quotchap

quotchap uses this command to specify the size of the chapter heading:

\let\size@chapter\huge

In your document, after loading quotchap, you could to the same but with another font size command, for instance:

\makeatletter
\let\size@chapter\small
\makeatother

You have to write \makeatletter ... \makeatother around the command to be able to use the @ sign in the command name.

If you would like to adjust more than just the size: quotchap calls a macro \sectfont that may be redefined to switch to a certain font family, shape or weight. For instance, regarding Levs answer concerning a condensed version, using condensed Helvetica could be done by

\usepackage{helvet}% if desired
\renewcommand*{\sectfont}{\sffamily\fontseries{mc}\selectfont}

\sectfont is used automatically for all quotchap chapter headings.

[Tex/LaTex] XeTeX can’t find font

You don't need to copy fonts that are already in TeX Live in system directories; you can simply do the following steps from a terminal window (assuming a bash shell):

sudo cp $(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFSYSVAR)/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf
sudo fc-cache -fsv

The whole system will know those fonts just as if they were in system directories (for programs linked with the fontconfig library, of course).

After installing TeX Live 2011 (after it has been released), you should issue the same two commands and fonts from the new release will be used.

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