Hi, Blame it on late-night craziness… =\ I just did another test with staff sizes 8 and 80, and the fonts do seem to be absolute(ly the same).
Sorry for the noise. Please confirm currency for bounty. Thanks, Kieren. On 2013-Aug-1, at 09:21, Jan-Peter Voigt <jp.vo...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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. > > Best, Jan-Peter > > > > Am 01.08.2013 06:33, schrieb Kieren MacMillan: >> Here's a side-by-side comparison with the default staff size (on the right) >> and set-global-size 25 (on the left), each blown up to 600% in a PDF viewer: >> > > <grob-interpret-markup-abs-fontsize3.ly><abs-font-size-14.ly><abs-font-size-24.ly> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
