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I used to slightly adjust my font size with \patchcmd{\normalsize}. Consider this code:

\documentclass[11pt]{memoir} \usepackage{etoolbox,lipsum} \makeatletter \patchcmd{\normalsize}{\@xipt}{{30pt}}{}{} % 30pt only for testing purpose! \normalsize \makeatother \begin{document} \lipsum \end{document}

If I compile it with LuaLaTeX (or XeLaTeX, or pdfLaTeX) 2021 or older, the text is resized; with TL 2022 it is not.

I'm using Overleaf, so I wonder if the reason is a change (or a bug) within TL 2022 as such, or its implementation in Overleaf.

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In the meantime, \normalsize has become a robust command, so \patchcmd is trying to patch the wrong command, namely the “surface” one rather than the one with the real code.

You shouldn't be patching \normalsize, actually: use instead a modern package such as fontsize.

Anyway, you can do with the patch with xpatch.

\documentclass[11pt]{memoir} \usepackage{xpatch,lipsum} \makeatletter \xpatchcmd{\normalsize}{\@xipt}{{30pt}}{}{} % 30pt only for testing purpose! \makeatother \begin{document} \lipsum \end{document}

Note that \normalsize after the patch is completely useless, as \normalsize (in the patched version) will be issued at begin document.

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