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Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:00:50 +0100 (CET) |
> I very much like Werner's suggestion for fractional point sizes in
> -ms. I have made posters for meetings, and never gone above 72
> points. I would suggest that the break size be 360 points == 5
> inches == 12.7 cm, as being easier to remember in other units--360
> is easy to remember on its own, as well.
I basically don't object, albeit this value appears rather artificial
to me. Are there more opinions?
> An alternative (which would suit me, though perhaps few others)
> would be to adopt a "UCSD localism", in use here since about 1980,
> namely to define a PZ macro, such that
>
> .PZ nn
>
> sets the point size, with the fractional points done using values
> above the threshold as Werner proposes. This would be completely
> backwards-compatible,
This doesn't solve the problem of specifying the document size on the
command line (as given with the `-rPS=...' option).
Werner
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Greg 'groggy' Lehey, 2004/01/08
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/01/09
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Jon Snader, 2004/01/09
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Ted Harding, 2004/01/09
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Jorgen Grahn, 2004/01/09
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Larry Kollar, 2004/01/09
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/01/10
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/01/11
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/01/08
Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Duncan Agnew, 2004/01/07
- Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms,
Werner LEMBERG <=
Re: [Groff] fractional point sizes with -ms, Duncan Agnew, 2004/01/09