From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: bug in font size switches?
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:30:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cdf0d69-b2fd-447f-e8ad-06d05945df23@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec43a0a9-6d78-5da0-0b01-9f7d0025a1e5@gmx.es>
On 10/17/2016 8:24 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 10/17/2016 08:10 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> Pablo Rodriguez 17. Oktober 2016 um 20:07
>>> [...]
>>> If this isn’t a bug, what am I missing here?
>>
>> The default sizes (12pt, 11pt etc.) have fixed values for x and xx, you
>> can see them in font-pre.mkiv:
>>
>> \definebodyfontenvironment
>> [\!!twelvepoint]
>> [ \s!text=\!!twelvepoint,
>> \s!script=\!!ninepoint,
>> \s!scriptscript=\!!sevenpoint,
>> \s!x=\!!tenpoint,
>> \s!xx=\!!eightpoint,
>> \v!big=\!!fourteenpointfour,
>> \v!small=\!!tenpoint]
>
> Wolfgang,
>
> many thanks for your help. I was reading that file.
>
> I know that a simple workaround would be to set the font size another
> value, but why do x and xx fixed values and not a, b, c and d?
>
> I mean (I’m only trying to understand), why are only those two values
> (form the letter series) fixed?
because they are the text counterparts of the smaller math sizes (those
are fixed too) ... think of \high and \low usage
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-17 18:07 Pablo Rodriguez
2016-10-17 18:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-10-17 18:24 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-10-17 18:30 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-10-17 19:47 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-10-17 18:33 ` Hans Hagen
2016-10-17 19:54 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-10-20 16:51 ` Csikos Bela
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