[texhax] making bibliography in latex

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> article.cls defines \refname as
>     \newcommand\refname{References}
> this is used with the \section* command for the environment
> thebibliography.  in turn, \section defines the size as
>     \normalfont\Large\bfseries
> 
> all the changes you want can be made at once, with
>     \renewcommand\refname{<font specs><new text>}

This is fine unless your using a class that puts refname into the table of
contents (indeed, for normal chapters, sections this would be the normal
behaviour)---any font change put in at the \refname or \section level would
carry over to the toc.  One way out is to also use the optional [] argument
of \section & co.:  

\section[A section]{\Large A section}

Or, assuming you would actually want, say, all section headers to come out
the same, find the class definition, e.g.,

\newcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
                                   {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                   {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
                                   {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}

Copy and paste to a personal style file (or to your preable enclosed in a
\makeatletter \makeatother pair) and change it at will.  Only this last
solution conforms to standard LaTeX philosophy.

Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe

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