On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:28PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > So the basic latex looks Ok? Then why does the 2nd and subsequnt > lines of the 'Author' environment appear as 'normal' sized text > rather than 72pt?
By default, latex defines the font as unscalable. Latex has a fixes set of font size (8,9,10,...), and when you ask for font size n, it gives you the closest value to n from the set.