How to change font size in verse environment?

Question

I am using solution give by @Herbet I try to add desired font size to the verse environment but it did not work for me. my entire document appears at font size 12. I want the verse to appear in font size 18. Rest of the document can stay at size 12.

There is a one line text on top of the verse, I want it to appear in font size 8 bold in red color. I do not know how to create a command for this so that I can use it and be able to change properties later. I would appreciate your help

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 03 '17 at 12:03

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You can change the font size using the \fontsize command; using \textcolor you can change the text color. An example (run it with XeLaTeX):

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\newenvironment{Verse}
  {\center\varwidth{\linewidth}\fontsize{18}{21.6}\selectfont}
  {\endvarwidth\endcenter}    
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\begin{Verse}
\textcolor{red}{\fontsize{8}{9.6}\selectfont\bfseries A line in bold red color}\\
foo bar\\
baz
\end{Verse}

\end{document}

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In the preamble of your document, you could define a command to change the font size, color and series for the line of text:

\newcommand\RedLine[1]{%
  \textcolor{red}{\fontsize{8}{9.6}\selectfont\bfseries#1}
}

and then use it in the body of your document like

\RedLine{text with different font attributes}

edited Jun 03 '17 at 12:03

Moriambar

11,466

answered Oct 06 '11 at 20:16

Gonzalo Medina

505,128

I am working with these fonts Aksharyogini / Nakula / Sanskrit 2003, when i replace \bfseries with any one of these I get error, what am I doing wrong. how would I work with these font types. thanks for your help – Aku Oct 07 '11 at 13:01
@Aku: I think it could be better to open a new question. You could link to this one, so people know that the new question is a follow up. – Gonzalo Medina Oct 07 '11 at 13:35
This above solution seems don't have the normal verse function anymore, what if I just want to tweak the font size, font style a bit? will be great if it can be set up in Preamble. – Shi Yuan Feb 04 '13 at 12:30
@ShiYuan you can patch the environment; perhaps asking a fresh new question would be better? I am not sure about your intent. – Gonzalo Medina Feb 05 '13 at 17:10
@GonzaloMedina actually it has been answered. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/96759/how-to-change-font-styles-in-verse-environment-without-setting-up-a-new-environm/96817#96817 – Shi Yuan Feb 05 '13 at 17:13

web-stranger · Answer 2 · 2015-03-27T23:43:12.067

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\documentclass[12pt]{book} 
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\newenvironment{Verse}
  {\vspace{-1ex}\vspace{0pt}\center\varwidth{\linewidth}\itshape\fontsize{18pt}{22pt}\selectfont}
  {\endvarwidth\endcenter\vspace{-1ex}\vspace{20pt}}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{Verse}
By geometric scale\\
Doth take the size of pots of ale.
\end{Verse}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

Space before the verse is removed, space after the verse is increased

Small adjustment of Gonzalo Medina's code. Now you can change the spaces before and after the verse.

edited Mar 27 '15 at 23:43

answered Mar 27 '15 at 23:28

web-stranger

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Your answer would be greatly improved if you provide a complete minimum working example, starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document}. Welcome to the site. – Steven B. Segletes Mar 27 '15 at 23:30

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