[texhax] LaTeX font size question

[Philip TAYLOR]

Ah, now /those/ sizes make enormous sense if one
thinks of TeX's CMR & \magstep heritage : they
correspond to :

	CMR5
	CMR7
	CMR8
	CMR9
	CMR10
	CMR12
	CMR12 scaled \magstep 1
	CMR17
	CMR17 scaled \magstep 1
	CMR17 scaled \magstep 2

The latter can also be approximated as

	CMR10 scaled \magstep 1
	CMR10 scaled \magstep 2
	CMR10 scaled \magstep 3
	CMR10 scaled \magstep 4
	CMR10 scaled \magstep 5

Missing are CMR6 (standard) and CMR10 scaled \magstephalf;
perhaps LL saw no need for easy access to these.

** Phil.
--------

David C. Walden wrote:

> Lars,
> 
>> >Could you provide a little more details for those of us who hasn't 
>> read Kopka and Daly.
> 
> 
> It lists
> \tiny = 5pt, \scriptsize = 7pt, \footnotesize = 8pt, \small = 9pt, 
> \normalsize = 10pt,
> \large = 12pt, \Large = 14.4 pt, \LARGE = 17.28pt, \huge = 20.74pt, 
> \Huge = 24.88pt
> for when 10pt has been selected as the basic size option with things 
> scaling
> accordingly when 11pt or 12pt is chosen.
> 
>> >BTW: the size, that, say, \small uses, is normally defined/or 
>> redefined by the documentclass.
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Another answer I have received is that "I think the mapping is really a 
> standard
> but most packages don't change them."
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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