Hello Elliot, I'm a newbie too but I change font sizes as follows. {\tfa Big text} {\tfa\bf Big and bold} ... Font size selectors from the smallest to the biggest are \tfxx \tfx \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd You told about a manual, but there are a lot of manuals around. -- With best regards Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com