On 8/10/20 6:00 AM, Daniel wrote:
> On 2020-08-09 18:56, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 8/9/20 7:41 AM, Daniel wrote:
>>> On 2020-08-08 19:45, Daniel wrote:
>>>> Is there a reason that the font size for the Part layout is not
>>>> greater than that for the Chapter (Book) or Section (Article) layout?
>>>> There is a difference in size in both standard classes and KOMA
>>>> script classes. I know LyX is not WYSIWYG but shouldn't there be some
>>>> distinction in size anyway?
>>>
>>> I was wrong.
>>>
>>> The standard book layout might be fine. They fit the LaTeX output size
>>> and are formatted as centered which makes them distinguishable. It
>>> might be still be worth to format them in LyX with slightly larger
>>> font size. But I guess that is optional.
>>>
>>> The article sizes are definitely wrong. For example, the part* and
>>> section* cannot be visually distinguished at all, see the attached
>>> document. Since the article classes are based on the book classes, I
>>> guess this was just a mistake when tweaking them.
>>>
>>> The KOMA book classes actually use a slightly greater size for parts
>>> which I would recommend adopting.
>>>
>>> I could make a patch if that's desired.
>>
>> Sure, go ahead.
>
> Two patches attached.
>
> article_sizes.diff: conservative in that it only corrects the
> article's part font sizes, so that starred parts can be distinguished
> visually from starred chapters in the work area.
>
> sectioning_sizes.diff: more reversionary in that it matches font sizes
> with their LaTeX equivalents.
>
> Which is the better patch depends on what the reason for a difference
> to LaTeX was. I am not sure what that reason might have been. Use less
> space in the work area for headers?

Probably. I'll commit the former.

Riki



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