Font size names

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Mon Aug 10 06:24:56 UTC 2020


Attached is a chart of LyX font sizes. Does anyone else find it slightly 
confusing that LyX uses two different naming schemes (in addition to 
LaTeX)? Maybe some historic reason? If possible, I suggest to go for 
only one naming scheme.

I guess the LaTeX naming scheme for large font sizes is a bit 
non-descriptive (using capitals to indicate comparatives/superlatives). 
So, I guess that is why there is a deviation from LaTeX. I am still not 
fully sure that it is a good idea to use different names because people 
will have to remember two different schemes instead of one.

But insofar as the more descriptive names should stay, I suggest to 
match Gui and LyX names in the following way (which actually helps to 
create less of a rift between LaTeX and LyX):

- "Huger" (Gui name) instead of "Giant" (LyX name) because it matches 
better the LaTeX naming (\Huge).

- Gui/LaTeX names for smaller font sizes because they are more 
descriptive, i.e. "Footnotesize" and "Scriptsize" (LyX name) instead of 
"Smaller" and "Smallest" (Gui name).

I guess the latter needs some argument: while there is no match of 
sectioning sizes to large sizes because they depend on the class, 
"footnotesize" and "scriptsize" match the respective sizes in classes 
(as far as I know). So, it's helpful to know that if one wants to match 
other elements in the text.
-- 
Daniel
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