Text Formatting ⇒ Why do I get tiny text after closing \scriptsize

[joe74]

I've been fighting with this document I did this evening. I thought it may be some bug or an error in my TeXlive distribution, but no. It happens the same in an online latexpdf tool I found. It generates the same pdf as the one I did this evening.

I'm using this:

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\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}

#...skipped...

\scriptsize{
	\begin{verbatim}
	linux:~ # gedit /etc/fstab
	\end{verbatim}
	}

Text text text text, text text. Text text text text, text text. Text, text text text, text text. Text text text text, text text. Text.

Everything comes right until I close "}", text starts to appear much more tiny in the output. I use \scriptsize{} more ahead in document and this keeps the subsequent text getting more and more tiny. I got no error in log message. Does anybody knows what is it all about? Did I miss something?

Thank you in advance.

[sommerfee]

\scriptsize does not have an argument, so you have to write

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{\scriptsize ...}

instead.

[joe74]

Oh, my... Error of mine.

Thanks for the help.

[Juanjo]

Just a couple of alternatives which may be more suited for long blocks of text:

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\scriptsize ...... \normalsize

or

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\begin{scriptsize} ...... \end{scriptsize}