Font size names
Daniel
xracoonx at gmx.de
Mon Aug 10 19:44:20 UTC 2020
On 2020-08-10 19:28, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Montag, den 10.08.2020, 11:14 -0600 schrieb Joel Kulesza:
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 9:37 AM Kornel Benko <kornel at lyx.org> wrote:
>>> I have not found 'huger' in the dictionary, so Giant is OK for me.
>>> But I would drop footnotesize and scriptsize and use
>>> smaller+smallest and use the GUI
>>> names here.
>>
>> Would it be too cluttered to have, for example, "smaller
>> (footnotesize)" and "smallest (scriptsize)" to help users more
>> familiar with LaTeX understand the outcome? These terms are specific
>> to LaTeX, but I'm not sure they would confuse non-LaTeX LyX users if
>> given with the other size labels.
>
> Yes (too cluttered). If you start this, you'll need to add similar
> elaborations to paragraph styles and other places.
>
> This is all too LaTeX-centric.
Since I always considered LyX to be quite LaTeX-centric, I am curious
what application of LyX there is where one font size step down from
normal wouldn't be footnote size and still it makes sense to have the
ten different font size steps exactly as in LaTeX.
--
Daniel
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