Re: absolute font size issues

[Werner LEMBERG]

[Reviving an old thread]

From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: absolute font size issues
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 06:25:20 +0100 (CET)

>> D'oh. A closer look into the sources of my old project dates 2011,
>> and I did not use \abs-... but \...-mm instead and gave all
>> dimensions in millimetres.
>
> Thanks.  I've entered
>
>   https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4193    ,
>
> which links to this thread.

Both the suggested \absoluteSizeOn and generating \abs-foo for \foo
isn't really appealing to me.

Here's another idea.  Would it be possible to make \pt and friends
work, for example

  \vspace 3\pt

for markup code?


    Werner