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On Monday 12 February 2001 22:24, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Jim Osborn wrote:
> > > When she wants eighteen-point type, dammit, she wants eighteen
> > > points. She says anyone who speced a type size of "huger"
> > > would have been laughed out of a job.
> >
> > Well put :). I guess that the reason LaTeX (and LyX) doesn't use
> > specific numeric sizes is that, for example "huger", makes not only the
> > usual font larger, but the headers too. So if you use "huger" the
> > standard font size might be maybe 18 points, but section headers might
> > be 24 points. So which point size should LaTeX use? This is what I think
> > LaTeX makers were thinking--but correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> as Lars said, there are only three standard font sizes: 10, 11, 12 pt.
> all other, like small, huge a.s.o. depend in their sizes to the
> standrard
> font size. all other "standard font sizes", like the one from the
> ext-package are special styles.
>
> > The actual size if "huger" etc. might also depend on document class.
>
> a document class has not a specific font size by default. choosing
> 10, 11 or 12pt defines all other sizes and the baselineskip, too:
>
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#table
>
>
> Herbert
Dear fellow LyXers,
Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it
does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through
reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv
using the class "article" without setting a single font size.
However, I understand that someone might want to set a specific font size.
Best regards,
Lucien
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