From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: relative scaling for fonts
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:12:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455B2066.80806@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455B1BD2.2070100@web.de>
Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> After using \showfontstrip to get fonts with the same x-height by
> calculating the rscale factor, I guess it would be very useful (at least
> for me) to have an option that calculates relative scaling automatically
> to match both x-heights.
>
> I think it would be a useful option for rscale.
>
hm, it's not that hard to do, but then the question is: what is the reference font; also, my experience is that an automated scaling in most cases looks as ugly as no scaling; it's a visual thing; the xheight is a factor but the 'boldness' too
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-12 21:17 Pablo Rodríguez
2006-11-13 20:06 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-11-13 23:38 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2006-11-14 11:15 ` Hans Hagen
2006-11-14 19:34 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2006-11-15 9:39 ` Hans Hagen
2006-11-15 13:53 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2006-11-15 14:12 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-11-16 8:56 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2006-11-16 9:05 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-11-16 10:54 ` Hans Hagen
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