However, if you use a postscript font, you can use whatever size you want, since these are not stored as bitmaps anywhere, but instead generated at the right size internally on the printer. So, if you're using a postscript font (say, by specifying timrom or newcen in the documentstyle), you can use arbtrary sizes of these fonts, by just saying:
\newfont{\wayhuge}{t-rom scaled 10000}Then, if you used
{\wayhuge Big}you would get Big in 100pt Times Roman when you printed it.
You should also specify the following environment variables in order to get the file to latex cleanly when using many of the postscript fonts. Just type (or include these lines in your .environment file):
attach texfonts attach sipb setenv TEXFONTS .:/usr/athena/lib/tex/fonts:/mit/sipb/lib/tex/fonts/tfm:\ /mit/sipb/lib/tex/fonts/vf:/mit/texfonts:/mit/texfonts/ipa: setenv TEXPKS $TEXFONTS extend TEXPKS /mit/sipb/lib/tex/fonts/pk: setenv PKFONTS $TEXPKSThe names of some of the postscript fonts we have are listed below. A complete list for dvi2ps names can be found by searching appropriate font directories such as /usr/athena/lib/tex/fonts. The list for dvips names can be found in the file /mit/sipb/lib/tex/ps-config/psfonts.map. (An explanation of the dvips names is also given at the end of the stock answer What is DVIPS? at the top level of the LATEX sub-menu.)
Postscript Font Name Name to use in Name to use in \newfont command \newfont command if using dvi2ps: if using dvips: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AvanteGarde-Book ag-book rpagk AvanteGarde-BookOblique ag-bookobl rpagko AvanteGarde-Demi ag-demi rpagd AvanteGarde-DemiOblique ag-demiobl rpagdo Bookman-Demi b-demi rpbkd Bookman-Light b-lig rpbkl Courier c-med rpcrr Courier-Bold c-bol rpcrb Courier-Oblique c-obl rpcrro Courier-BoldOblique c-bolobl rpcrbo Helvetica h-med rphvr Helvetica-Bold h-bol rphvb Helvetic-Oblique h-obl rphvro Helvetica-BoldOblique h-bolobl rphvbo NewCenturySchlbk-Roman ncs-rom rpncr NewCenturySchlbk-Italic ncs-ita rpncri NewCenturySchlbk-Bold ncs-bol rpncb NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic ncs-bolita rpncbi Palatino p-rom rpplr Palatino-Bold p-bol rpplb Palatino-Italic p-ita rpplri Palatino-Oblique p-obl rpplro Times-Roman t-rom rptmr Times-Bold t-bol rptmb Times-Italic t-ita rptmri Times-BoldItalic t-bolita rptmbi Zapf Chancery Medium Italic zc-medita rpzcmiNOTE: xdvi is unable to display PostScript fonts, and will substitute the default Computer-Modern in their place.