Part no greater font size than Chapter/Section

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Sun Aug 9 16:56:21 UTC 2020


On 8/9/20 7:41 AM, Daniel wrote:
> On 2020-08-08 19:45, Daniel wrote:
>> Is there a reason that the font size for the Part layout is not
>> greater than that for the Chapter (Book) or Section (Article) layout?
>> There is a difference in size in both standard classes and KOMA
>> script classes. I know LyX is not WYSIWYG but shouldn't there be some
>> distinction in size anyway?
>
> I was wrong.
>
> The standard book layout might be fine. They fit the LaTeX output size
> and are formatted as centered which makes them distinguishable. It
> might be still be worth to format them in LyX with slightly larger
> font size. But I guess that is optional.
>
> The article sizes are definitely wrong. For example, the part* and
> section* cannot be visually distinguished at all, see the attached
> document. Since the article classes are based on the book classes, I
> guess this was just a mistake when tweaking them.
>
> The KOMA book classes actually use a slightly greater size for parts
> which I would recommend adopting.
>
> I could make a patch if that's desired.

Sure, go ahead.

Riki




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