Similar questions have been asked but with no conclusive answers. How do I set my body font size to be equivalent to MS Word 12, which is required by my college. 12 pt in LaTeX is equal to size 10 in Word. The font type is Times New Roman.
[Tex/LaTex] Thesis body font size 12 bp
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In a word, 'no'. The achemso class is intended purely to support submissions to the ACS, and so has no features which are not needed for that purpose. The achemso package is intended to support producing more general documents which need some of the features of the class. You should use a suitable general class (for example report) and load appropriate packages.
You're halfway there. The following code should do what your require. See the comments in my code for explanation.
\documentclass[12pt]{scrreprt}
% The "12pt" class option sets \normalsize to 12pt and \footnotesize to 10pt.
% If not modified, the font size in footnotes will correspond to \footnotesize.
\usepackage[a4paper, left=2.5cm, right=3cm, top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{mathptmx} % loads Times New Roman
\usepackage{setspace} % for interline spacing
\onehalfspacing % interline spacing of 1.5 in main text, 1 in footnotes
\usepackage{lipsum} % dummy text
% Here, I redefine \tabular to automatically switch to
% \footnotesize within the scope of a tabular environment.
\let\oldtabular\tabular
\renewcommand{\tabular}{\footnotesize\oldtabular}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Foo bar}
An outline of intellectual rubbish%
\footnote{Man is a rational animal, so at least I have been told.
Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence
in favour of this statement, but so far,
I have not had the good fortune to come across it.%
}
\lipsum[1-5]
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
hello & see ya & bye\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Foobar}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Best Answer
The difference is negligible.
1 bp = 1.00374 pt (from a conversion table) so 12 pt would convert to 11.9553 bp, not 10 bp.
\RequirePackage{fix-cm}is needed per egreg’s comment, to prevent TeX from choosing the nearest standard size font file (12 pt in this case).