[texhax] Font Size Question

[Thomas Jacobs]

Karl and Alex,

Thanks very much for the replies.  The link Karl shared helps me to
know that I cannot use tiny if my base font is 12 and I am limited to
a minimum 7 pt size.

I used Alex' reply to navigate to the .clo files in the MikTeX
distribution.  While I can see what he shared I must confess, I am
unfamiliar with much of the code.

What is the difference between bk12.clo and size12.clo?

How does one interpret @vipt vs. @viipt, for example?  Are these set
in the program or do they have defined values in the language?

Thanks again,

Tom

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Axel E. Retif <axel.retif at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On  21 Jun, 2010, at 16:44, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> >    Thanks.  Can you tell me how you (or I) would know the defined font
> >    sizes for a given class, like your book class example?  Where do you
> >    look for such information, etc.  That is really what I need to know
> >    but have been unable to decipher it myself.
> >
> > No guarantees, but I attempted to extract the size tables out of the
> > sources at one point for the unofficial latex reference manual I work on
> > from time to time.
> > http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/latexrefman/trunk/latex2e.html#Font-sizes
>
> Ah! This is good, not only for font sizes. (And, by the way, I made a mistake in my previous reply ---tiny size is 6pt as Karl Berry writes in said document, not 7pt as I said.)
>
> As to where to look for this data, it is, in a TeXLive distribution, in
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base
>
> There you can look into bk10.clo, bk11.clo, bk12.clo, size10.clo, size11.clo, and size12.clo. As you might know, the first number is the font size, and the second the baseline skip; so, for example,
>
> \newcommand\tiny{\@setfontsize\tiny\@vipt\@viipt}
>
> means tiny is 6pt in size with 7pt baseline skip (leading).
>
>
> Best
>
> Axel
>
>



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Thomas Jacobs