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Re: how to export to odt with 11 or 10 pt fonts? Default font setting
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Uwe Brauer |
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Re: how to export to odt with 11 or 10 pt fonts? Default font setting |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 14:28:03 +0200 |
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>>> "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.
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