diff --git a/004/codex-004.tex b/004/codex-004.tex index 805a75c..b59cf7f 100644 --- a/004/codex-004.tex +++ b/004/codex-004.tex @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ I admit, I am pretty invested in Ubuntu. But I don't have to be that way. There This also omits Edubuntu which, as a former teacher, I am very interested in. -\chapter{What's to Like About Linux} +\chapter{More Fun with bash} As I get older, I find that I want to spend less time doing repetitive tasks that need to be done, and spend more time doing the stuff I want to do, like writing. @@ -763,6 +763,24 @@ Once you understand the basics, it's fairly straightforward to construct even mo \subsection{How to Create Macros} +\subsection{How to Get More Font Sizes} + +One of the things that has bugged me for some time about this zine is that I was not creating the cover in \LaTeX{}. The reason for that was simple: I didn't know how. But we're now at the fourth issue, and so it was time to finally figure it out.\footnote{So if this cover looks a little different than previous covers, this is the reason why. But they will look like this going forward.} + +One of the issues that I encountered is that your standard document classes give you a limited number of font sizes, and I needed the title to be fairly large. Larger than I could get with the \verb|\begin{Huge}•\end{Huge}| command, anyway. + +As it turns out, if you are using Type 1 fonts, you can just use the \texttt{fontsize} command to make this work. This is what I used for the front cover: + +\begin{Verbatim}[frame=lines, numbers=left, xleftmargin=5mm, framesep=3mm, breaklines=true, label=\fbox{fontsize example}] +{\fontsize{50}{60}\selectfont \textbf{the codex}} +\end{Verbatim} + +The first number (50) represents the font size, while the second one (60) specifies the line spacing, which is generally irrelevant if you are only using this on a single line of text.\footnote{I found this at \kref{https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/716/245702}{https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/716/245702}.} + +\subsection{Adding Space at the Top of a Page} + +Another issue that I ran into when creating the cover in \LaTeX{} is that I needed space at the top of the page, before the text. Normally, I use something like \verb|\vspace{50mm}| for something like that, but any \verb|\vspace| is automatically deleted at the top of a page. The solution is to use it with an asterisk, like this: \verb|\vspace*{50mm}|. + \section{What I learned About \LaTeX{} While Creating Something Else} \end{document}