Re: how to export to odt with 11 or 10 pt fonts? Default font setting

["Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>]

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)))

Best regards,

Juan Manuel