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Which one is this? > >> > >> None. The font decides about its size. > > actually, the designer ... anyway, one can compare 10pt dejavu with 10pt > > latin modern and 10pt lucida and you'll see that there is no real > > standard in size > > Many thanks for your reply, Hans. > > I thought that I was missing something. For sure, but it was the > explanation why there is no standarization in size. > Nice to/must have : Fonts & Encodings Book by Yannis Haralambous https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/ and pdf at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opbuildpdf/TOC.pdf?branch=live -- luigi --00000000000002c1e005786916ff Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:51 P= M Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> = wrote:
On 10/15/= 18 10:59 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> If two fonts have the same size, I think there may be a dimens= ion which
>>> has the same length in both. Which one is this?
>>
>> None. The font decides about its size.
> actually, the designer ... anyway, one can compare 10pt dejavu with 10= pt
> latin modern and 10pt lucida and you'll see that there is no real =
> standard in size

Many thanks for your reply, Hans.

I thought that I was missing something. For sure, but it was the
explanation why there is no standarization in size.
<= div>

Nice to/must have :

Fonts = & Encodings
Book by Yannis Haralambous
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