Re: [Gnumed-devel] Placeholder for past history

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 08:59:46PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> > Personally, I am always rather wary of changing package
> > defaults regarding spacing et al since there's a lot of
> > detailed typographic knowledge going into that by the
> > various package authors.
> 
> Quite right. I shall have to eventually figure out whether such commands as
> 
>       \setlist{noitemsep}
> 
> are active only for the current list, or whether they newly set the mode for 
> the remainder of the document (until again changed).

You may want to read up on the {} grouping mechanism. As far
as I know one can localize settings by doing something like

        normal size { \tiny some tiny text} normal size again

At the very least this works for me when adjusting font size
within table cells ;-)

Karsten
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