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Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs
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Kieren MacMillan |
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Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs |
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Thu, 1 Aug 2013 09:29:50 -0400 |
Hi,
Blame it on late-night craziness… =\
I just did another test with staff sizes 8 and 80, and the fonts do seem to be
absolute(ly the same).
Sorry for the noise.
Please confirm currency for bounty.
Thanks,
Kieren.
On 2013-Aug-1, at 09:21, Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Kieren,
>
> I did some checks on the absolute font-sizes:
> - If you do a stencil-add on a stencil created via grob-interpret-markup and
> interpret-markup inside a normal markup, they exactly match-
> - If you do a pixel by pixel compare (I did in gimp) a Lyric markup with an
> abs-font-size with different global-staff-sizes, they also match ...
> ... but you have to move the letter. IMO this is reasonable, because
> different staff-sizes mean different scaling of anything else but these
> absolute scaled fonts.
> Now if you import a simple PDF with a single 'X' 42pt into Libre/OpenOffice,
> it will show the found font-sizes of the text-objects.
> If you create the PDF with LibreOffice Century Schoolbook L 42pt and reimport
> that PDF, you will have exactly 42pt.
> If you create PDF files with an absolute-font-size of 42pt, it will result in
> 41,9pt in the reimported file - regardless of the global-staff-size.
> AFAICS the font-size is absolute, but there seems to be a calculation
> inaccuracy of 0.1pt.
>
> Best, Jan-Peter
>
>
>
> Am 01.08.2013 06:33, schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
>> Here's a side-by-side comparison with the default staff size (on the right)
>> and set-global-size 25 (on the left), each blown up to 600% in a PDF viewer:
>>
>
> <grob-interpret-markup-abs-fontsize3.ly><abs-font-size-14.ly><abs-font-size-24.ly>
Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs, Jan-Peter Voigt, 2013/08/01
Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs,
Kieren MacMillan <=