Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ documentclass and font size

[evlabiba]

For beginners...
Whether I type this :
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,oneside]{article}
or that:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{article}
the font-size doesn't change.
Why?
As you can see, people can have problems with the very first line of their documents...
Thank you.

[Lucia]

Hello, evlabiba.

Indeed, that behaviour seems strange. Could you please send us a minimal working example, or even the log file, so we can spot the problem? I created a file with these same settings, and got no errors or warnings...

Lucia

[drowsy]

evlabiba, you need to recompile your document.

[evlabiba]

O.K. I tried again. There is a difference between 10pt and 12pt but not between 12 and other sizes : 14pt, 16pt...
I guess I need a package for larger sizes.
Thanks again.

[localghost]

Try the classes from the extsizes bundle.

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\documentclass[14pt,a4paper]{extarticle}

An alternative could be the moresize package.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[phi]

Another alternative would be to use the KOMA-Script classes, which also allow arbitrary font sizes.