Re: Maintaining font-size regardless of staff-size

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Thomas Morley-2 wrote
>>> Hmm, there's still some horizontal difference.
>>
>> Hi Harm,
>>
>> The idea of adding 'pt was brilliant, because it lead me into the right
>> direction:
>>
>> *The exact reason...*
>> ... is the co-operation between the (outside) Pango world and the (inside)
>> TeX-like world:
>> An American (Pango) point is 1/72 inch, a TeX point used internally is
>> 1/72.27 inch - that's all!
>> This tiny deviation leads to an enormous mismatch between glyph and font
>> metrics scaling.
>
> Uh, that's 0.4% or so.  How does an "enormous mismatch" come about then?

I think it's more likely that LilyPond messes up when reusing fonts with
a particular size under different circumstances and your "correction"
just keeps it from reusing a font, instead calculating a fresh one.

-- 
David Kastrup