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From: "Peter Neilson" <neilson@windstream.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to export to odt with 11 or 10 pt fonts? Default font setting
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:59:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.1av80qyurns8nc@odin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735pd81f0.fsf@mat.ucm.es>

On Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:28:03 -0400, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:

>>>> "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.

Sometimes that kind of difference can cause minor sessions of  
tearing-out-the-hair, like when the expected pagination is off, with just  
one word hanging off into the wilderness of another separate page. Manual  
typesetting, back in the dark ages of hand-set lead type, or even  
Linotype, encountered those problems, too. What did the stymied typesetter  
do? He'd leave out words! Yes, really!! "This sentence no verb."


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-07 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-06 15:18 how to export to odt with 11 or 10 pt fonts? Default font setting Uwe Brauer
2021-10-07  7:26 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-10-07 12:27   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-10-07 13:57     ` Eric S Fraga
2021-10-07 11:24 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-10-07 12:28   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-10-07 12:58     ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-10-07 12:59     ` Peter Neilson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-10-09 21:17 copropriete27ruemoret
2021-10-10  2:52 ` Juan Manuel Macías

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