>>> "JMM" == Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Uwe Brauer writes:
>> I searched about google, but it seems that the only way to have a 10 or
>> 11 pt font size is, again, by using styles. Am I right?

> Yes, you are right. Word processors handle paragraph and character
> styles. Anything that is not styled is applied by direct formatting,
> manually, which is often bad practice.

> Fun fact: 11pt (for example) in libreoffice or M$ Word is not the same
> as 11pt in LaTeX. The reason is that TeX uses by default the classic
> point "pt", traditionally used in English-speaking countries. 12pt=1pc
> (pica). Word processors and DTP programs like InDesign or QuarkXpress
> use the postscript point, which is somewhat higher. In TeX the
> postscript point is called 'big point' (bp). There is also the didot
> point, which in TeX is called "dd" (12dd = 1 cicero). See:
> https://github.com/tweh/tex-units

> With the calc-units package you can easily convert between these TeX
> units in Elisp. For instance:

> (require 'calc-units)

> (calc-eval (math-convert-units (calc-eval "11texpt" 'raw) (calc-eval
> "texbp" 'raw)))

Thanks, but it seems 11TeXpt-->10.95

So it is not that different.