Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
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It would appear that on May 3, Helge Hafting did say:
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koma-script is a standard part of texlive, which is a popular tex
distribution for some linux distributions.
If you have debian, then "apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended"
is what you need to get koma-script.
Then I suppose that I could work on a document with the lyx provided by
whichever distro I'm using. And when I want a large print version I
could at least modify a copy of it in my kubuntu environment... Thankyou
for the package name. ;)
As for printing a document with different font sizes:
The normal way is to select a different font size.
If that is not possible, then you can redefine
the font sizes latex use ( \small, \big, \footnotesize,
and so on. There are a couple of handfuls of these, no more.
If you redefine these, then the whole document changes accordingly.
OK so if I can find the instructions to redefine said font sizes along
with a list of the font designations listing their default font sizes,
I could redefine them all for a value of ($defaultvalue * 1.5) and then
produce the large print output... ??? !!! ???
Yes.
This way is some work, but it is definitely less than changing *every*
paragraph in a big document. The amount of work is independent of
document size, no more work for a long book than for a 3-page report.
So if this is perhaps something I do with "ERT" commands I could embed a
comment with the appropriate ERT command form, with the values that produced
the most agreeable large print output, in all my documents. Then when I'd
want a large print version All I'd have to do would be to copy the
content of the comment to an ERT box at the beginning of the document
before producing the large print output, and then simply delete the ERT
box when I want to revert to a more normal print size???
Yes. Rather than delete an ERT box, just put a %-sign at the start of
each line
inside. That disables it, it is then easy to enable again later by
removing the %-signs.
If so it would be worth a month of Sundays worth of work to refine
the ERT command! Hmmnn, Is the redefining of the latex font size values
independent of the koma-script package? Cause if so this solution would
likely provide for an ERT command that would work in all my linux
environments... Which makes the idea priceless... Thankyou!
This sort of thing can be done with any document class.
Is there perhaps, an easy to follow how-to somewhere for this technique of
redefining the font sizes? {drool drool}
Not that I know of - I wouldn't consider this an "easy way". You would
have to read
up on latex commands. Might be interesting if you're into programming,
or have a special interest for typography. Or it could be a big headache
. . .
The "easy way" is to use document class: "book/article/report (more font
sizes)"
which allows font sizes up to 20pt to be selected in
"document->settings->fonts"
I.e. if you already use "article", switch to "article (more font sizes)".
If you already use book, switch to "book (more font sizes)" and so on.
This works with the released lyx 1.5.4, and the upcoming lyx 1.6
There is also document class "book (memoir)" that allows font sizes up
to 17 pt.
On debian, and probably ubuntu, this stuff becomes
available if you install the package "texlive-latex-recommended". You
may also
have to use "tools->reconfigure" in LyX, and then restart LyX so that LyX
will know about the new available document classes.
There are some advantages to useing a document class over
redefining the font sizes. This is so because font sizes only is part of
the typography. There are also such things as margin sizes,
distances between heading and the following paragraph, distance
between figures and text, spacing in lists, math sizes, and so on. Many of
these adapt to the font size in use, but not necessarily all.
A document class with extra font sizes should take care
of everything though.
If you want easy - definitely go for a document class that supports
many font sizes. Then you are sure everyhing will work and look good too.
One can also get interesting results with ERT boxes, but they
are meant for experts. There is a bigger risk of problems, from
ugliness that needs more ERT (or micromanagement) to fix, to
documents that doesn't print and need debugging. The latter is
not fun when it happens late in the evening. :-/
Helge Hafting
