Jim Osborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) asks:
| >| > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size
| >| > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller"
| >| > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu?
| >|
| >
| >But I still want to know _why_ you need this.
|
| My wife, who has worked many years in the graphics/typesetting
| industry (she was invited to be one of the first testers/providers-of-
| feedback-to-the-developers at Aldus as they were creating PageMaker),
| is used to working with type in explicit sizes.
|
| 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.
So I take it that she has not worked a lot with (La)TeX before?
Even if it is possible to work with absolute font sizes in (La)TeX you
don't really want to. You really want to create a command \myfontsize
(or \huger), and you also want this command to take the base fontsize
of the document into consideration.
Perhaps you know this, but I am certain there are others who don't.
standard LaTeX documentclasses have three base fontsizes
(10pt,11pt,12pt) which is the \normal fontsize command.
Also since (La)TeX is a markup language it makes sense to define
commands for the different sizes so that if you ever want to change
the fontsiz you only change the definition of the command.
| That's why I need this---credibility with a long-time typesetter! :)
Surely we want to accomodate professional typesetters as well, but not
by making it easy to set a specific font size on text, but rather by
making it possible/easy to define new fontsize commands.
I belive I have this somewhere on my todo list...
Lgb
