Cfrgtkky

I have been trying to set up a poster using beamer. My problem is that the poster has very clear specifications: 24-point for paragraphs, 24-point for figure captions, 28-point for authors' names and 36-point for title.

This might be for my lack of knowledge (even though I have been using LaTeX for about 6 years), but I feel like this is one way that word is way better than LaTeX (and it pains me to say that), since with word I know exactly which font is used each part.

In latex not only I can only choose some pre-defined fonts for my document in documentclass, but after I do that it's not explicit which fonts are what size. (Is the base font the font for the paragraph? Then what font is the title? And the Section headers?)

Beamer tries to solve this with the setbeamerfont command, but I found that for some reason it doesn't work for every theme, so either it really doesn't work, or I'm using it wrong and it's a counter-intuitive command.

My question is: is there a way to define each font in your document explicitly, easily, and that works across classes? (So I don't have to learn a command for beamer, a command for reports, etc.)

Here's a MWE. In this example some definitions work and some don't. But most importantly I can't use these definitions with other classes, so they're not general.

documentclass[final]{beamer}

usepackage{beamerposter} % Use the beamerposter package for laying out the poster



% These work

setbeamerfont{title}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{block title}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{author}{size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{date}{size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

% These don't work

setbeamerfont{normaltext}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{30}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{block body}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}



title{Fake title for MWE} % Poster title

author{Author 1 and Author 2} % Author(s)



begin{document}

maketitle



begin{frame}

begin{alertblock}{Summary}

We introduce a package that makes data processing

significatly more efficient:

begin{itemize}

item Easy to use

item Oopen-source

end{itemize}

end{alertblock}



end{frame} % End of the enclosing frame

end{document}

To answer for the % These don't work fonts:

• 
  

  setbeamerfont{normaltext}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{30}{32}}}

  
  
  

  There is a missing space, it should be normal text and a little trick is necessary to use this template, namely AtBeginDocument{usebeamerfont{normal text}}

  
  



• setbeamerfont{block body}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}
  This command already works perfectly fine, but you are not using block but alertblock, so you'll need setbeamerfont{block body alerted}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

documentclass[final]{beamer}

usepackage{beamerposter} % Use the beamerposter package for laying out the poster



% These work

setbeamerfont{title}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{block title}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{author}{size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{date}{size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{block body alerted}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{block body}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{36}{32}}}

setbeamerfont{normal text}{family=rmfamily,series=bfseries,size={fontsize{30}{32}}}

AtBeginDocument{usebeamerfont{normal text}}



title{Fake title for MWE} % Poster title

author{Author 1 and Author 2} % Author(s)



begin{document}

begin{frame}

maketitle

text



begin{alertblock}{Summary}

We introduce a package that makes data processing

significatly more efficient:

begin{itemize}

item Easy to use

item Oopen-source

end{itemize}

end{alertblock}



end{frame} % End of the enclosing frame

end{document}

Result: