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From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
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 14:28:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735pd81f0.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874k9tnkm0.fsf@posteo.net

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-07 12:32 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 [this message]
2021-10-07 12:58     ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-10-07 12:59     ` Peter Neilson
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2021-10-09 21:17 copropriete27ruemoret
2021-10-10  2:52 ` Juan Manuel Macías

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