On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:06:00PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> why are characters with sans serif font bigger (on screen) than "normal"
> characters even though their actual size is equal? Is this a problem with
> missing X11 fonts? I checked the problem both on SUN Sparc Solaris and
> Linux - it makes no difference.
*Wild Guess*
You're using times and helvetica as your screen fonts, but as it is
Well Known (TM), these two fonts are a poor match, and their
'perceived' sizes are not the same.
This is one of the nice things about CM (or any other well designed
font family, of course): the serif and sans fonts are designed to
match.
There is a standard scaling factor which supposedly 'matches'
Helvetica with Times: it's something like scaling helvetica down by
87%, but I'm not sure. One of the LaTeX packages sets it up right.
Jules
