On Tuesday 20 May 2008 14:03, Ziser, Jesse wrote: > An odd suggestion! Dealing with that system doesn't sound very appealing > to me. Factors of 2^(1/12)? That's even worse than working with feet, > yards, rods, and so forth. Why not just get rid of the whole concept of a > fixed set of font sizes (seriously, who still uses mechanical type?) and > just let me tell the computer that I want my letters to be, say, 8.4 mm > tall? That would be ideal to me.
A geometric progression is one of the suggestions on Markus Kuhn's page. Of course, whatever system is in use, you should be able to specify a size that's not on the list. Pierre
