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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/01/2013 05:27 AM, Dr A K Hannaby
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Tug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In Latex, is
there a construction to (temporarily) query what is the font
size currently being used?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Running
amsbook under Miktex 2.9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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\show\the\font is a basic TeX sequence which ought to work in
LaTeX. It should be placed immediately following a word that you
know ought to be in the font you want to identify. It will
temporarily suspend TeX, which can be started again with a CR. It
should have no effect on the DVI output, but will be recorded in the
log file. You can also get at the standard \fontdimen s such as
\fontdimen2, the default interword skip in similar ways.
\show\thefont will drill down to the original basic font definition,
which may not be the way LaTeX chooses to refer to it.<br>
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Pierre MacKay<br>
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