[XeTeX] selecting font size

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

Brian Wilson wrote:


> For \documentclass{book} I can choose between 10pt-12pt. This is too small
> for booksfor the visually impared or books in languages whose font size is
> natively small. Thai fonts are really small. A 16pt Thai font is about 11pt
> for an English font. A 10pt Thai font is about 7pt in English.
>   

Hi Brian:


You can try to load a standard size (10-12pt) but scale the Lao font, e.g.,

\setmainfont{Times}
\newfontfamily\Laofont[Scale=2]{Saysettha MX}


With this example, the Lao font will be scaled to twice the size of the 
mainfont.



HTH.



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