Font size names

[Daniel]

On 2020-08-11 17:40, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de 
> <mailto:xracoonx at gmx.de>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2020-08-11 07:50, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>      > Am Montag, den 10.08.2020, 21:44 +0200 schrieb Daniel:
>      >> 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.
>      >
>      > DocBook, XHTML.
> 
>     I don't know anything about DocBook. But XHTML doesn't have ten
>     different font sizes.
> 
> 
> If that's of any use… XHTML has "only" eight named font sizes 
> (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-size#absolute-size <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-size#absolute-size>), 
> but many more when you give a measurement (12px, 1em, etc.).
> 
> As for DocBook, there is no notion of font size within the markup, as it 
> is made to truly separate content and presentation. The only exceptions 
> are section and bridgehead (a way to generate something that looks like 
> a section header), with the renderas attribute, but it's very specific 
> in use.

Thanks. So, I guess the ten font-sizes in LyX are pretty LaTeX-centric 
to begin with.
-- 
Daniel