John,

Thanks very much. Will try these and get back with results.

Vikas

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:09 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Vikas,
>
>
> You want to play around with the \setbeamerfont command.
>
> Grab the manual here:
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf
>
> Check out, in particular, section 18.3.3 entitled "Setting Beamer's Fonts"
> - You can direct commands for the whole document at various "parts" of the
> Beamer doc
> --- \setbeamerfont {title}{size=\large} (or \LARGE or \Huge, for example)
> --- \setbeamerfont {frametitle}
> --- Scan the manual for all the part names you can fiddle with but for sure
> these are frametitle (title on each slide), title (title on the first
> slide), author (author's name on first slide), footer/header (the stuff at
> the bottom/top of each slide)... and probably subtitle? I forget all of them
> and haven't found a great concise list yet...
>
> - You can also set up custom font names like this from page 199
> /--------
> | \setbeamerfont{parent A}{size=\large}
> | \setbeamerfont{parent B}{series=\bfseries}
> | \setbeamerfont{child}{parent={parent A, parent B},size=\small}
> | \normalfont
> | This text is in a normal font.
> | \usebeamerfont{parent A}
> | This text is large.
> | \usebeamerfont{parent B}
> | This text is large and bold.
> | \usebeamerfont{parent B}
> | This text is still large and bold.
> | \usebeamerfont*{parent B}
> | This text is only bold, but not large.
> | \usebeamerfont{child}
> | This text is small and bold.
> \---------
>
> Also, see secion 18.2.1 entitled "Choosing a Font Size for Normal Text"
> - Essentially you set body text via \documentclass[size-goes-here(e.g. 8pt,
> 11pt, etc.] ]{beamer}
>
> Lastly, here's a handy page with LaTeX font sizes:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Useful_Size_Commands
>
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>
> <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Useful_Size_Commands>John
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