Font size names

Kornel Benko kornel at lyx.org
Tue Aug 11 06:43:18 UTC 2020


Am Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:11:57 +0200
schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org>:

> Am Montag, den 10.08.2020, 19:34 +0200 schrieb Daniel:
> > They are not just internal. For example, "giant" appears in the 
> > 
> > customization manual ("footnotesize" and "scriptsize" don't but
> > neither do "smaller" and "smallest", I think it's just an unintended
> > ommission).   
> 
> Customization is not addressed at end users. It describes internals.
> 
> > And "giant" seems to be used for translations, e.g. German as pointed
> > out above.   
> 
> No, I think the reason is that "Gigantisch" is just a nicer expression
> than "Riesiger" in German.
> 
> > Furthermore, "giant" is used in layouts, like the poster
> > classes.  
> 
> This is internal as well.
> 
> If we changed the internals (which is a file format change certainly
> _and_ a layout format change) I'd rather go for something more
> abstract, such as
> 
> \fontsize 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2, -3, -4

+1 (in case of change internals)

> Jürgen

	Kornel
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