[texhax] making tables bigger

[Christopher W. Ryan]

I don't have the file in the original format anymore, and I can't 
reproduce the error.  What you composed below worked for me too, so it 
must have been some stupid mistake on my part.

Thanks anyway.

--Chris
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and Wilson Family Practice Residency, Johnson City, NY
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Lars Madsen wrote:
> Christopher W. Ryan :
> 
>> I struggled over the weekend typing my daughter's science fair 
>> project.  It was for display on a typical tri-fold cardboard poster, 
>> so it had to be legible from a distance.  I typed it in article style 
>> using \Large and that seemed to work--except for the data table, which 
>> remained small, as it would be in a written manuscript.
>>
>> I fiddled with various boxes, minipages, and putting \Large in the 
>> body of the table environment, but I couldn't get it right.
>>
>> I did an end-run and used seminar style, as if I was making overhead 
>> transparencies, and that did the trick.
>>
>> But I was wondering if there was a straightforward way to make tables 
>> larger in article style.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
> 
> Could you make a minimal example of what you did?
> 
> Normally
> 
> \begin{table}
> \Large
> \begin{tabular}
> ...
> \end{tabular}
> \end{table}
> 
> works fine.
> 
> 
> /daleif
> 
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