Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

I will try later
That's what a quick googling showed up for me too.
Cheers, jp

Am 01.08.2013 um 15:40 schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:

> Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi Kieren,
>> 
>> I did some checks on the absolute font-sizes:
>> - If you do a stencil-add on a stencil created via
>> grob-interpret-markup and interpret-markup inside a normal markup,
>> they exactly match-
>> - If you do a pixel by pixel compare (I did in gimp) a Lyric markup
>> with an abs-font-size with different global-staff-sizes, they also
>> match ...
>> ... but you have to move the letter. IMO this is reasonable, because
>> different staff-sizes mean different scaling of anything else but
>> these absolute scaled fonts.
>> Now if you import a simple PDF with a single 'X' 42pt into
>> Libre/OpenOffice, it will show the found font-sizes of the
>> text-objects.
>> If you create the PDF with LibreOffice Century Schoolbook L 42pt and
>> reimport that PDF, you will have exactly 42pt.
>> If you create PDF files with an absolute-font-size of 42pt, it will
>> result in 41,9pt in the reimported file - regardless of the
>> global-staff-size.
>> AFAICS the font-size is absolute, but there seems to be a calculation
>> inaccuracy of 0.1pt.
> 
> Does the patch in
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3483> help?
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup