Re: tikz

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 23:22, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> TikZ does the following:
>>>
>>> \def\pgfutil@font@tiny{\tfxx}            % How to do this correctly?
>> \small or \txx
> 
> That was just copy-pasted from TikZ source (I have not been asking
> that; my diagnosis/question/suggestion was about
> \let\pgfutil@font@normalfont=\rm and \let\pgfutil@selectfont=\rm that
> should probably be changed to \tf) but since you have answered ...
> 
> I think that it was desired to use something even smaller. In LaTeX there is:
> 
> \tiny	5
> \scriptsize	7
> \footnotesize	8
> \small	9
> \normalsize	10
> 
> so one can choose 4 smaller sizes. In ConTeXt there is apparently (I
> never had to use so tiny sizes, so I never checked the details):
> 
>   \definebodyfontenvironment
>     [10pt]
>     [\s!text=10pt,\s!script=7pt,\s!scriptscript=5pt,
>      \c!x=8pt,\c!xx=6pt,\c!big=12pt,\c!small=8pt]
> 
> I suspect that the author wanted to have something even smaller than
> \tfxx (or better: 4 smaller sizes instead of just the current two),
> most probably that would be scriptscript, just that it needs a special
> treatment. (\switchtobodyfont[scriptscript] works to get 5pt in 10pt
> regime, but I'm not sure about the most efficient way.)

i don't know either ... personally i'd use a model that is tight to 
graphic dimensions (as baseline alignments are also an issue)

anyway, the latex and context font models are too different to bother 
too much about mapping

Hans




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