[XeTeX] Size of math font

[Nicolas Vaughan]

@Elkin,
Thanks for the help. But, isn't there a way in (Xe)LaTeX to select the such
scaling within a .sty file? Editing the .fd files seems kind of permanent to
me!
Cheers!
Nicolas


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Will.
> Thanks for your reply. The \DeclareMathSizes worked fine.
>
> I have a question apropos type leading. As I have seen, the \leading or
> \linespread scope is all-too local, in such a way that if I add
> \leading{14pt} in the preample, my footnotes remain with the default leading
> for footnotes in that document size. To change the leading of footnotes I
> have to use the footmisc package thus:
>
> \usepackage{footmisc}
> \renewcommand{\footnotelayout}{\fontsize{8}{11pt}\selectfont}
> \setlength{\footnotesep}{15pt}
>
>
> Can leading be set with a \newfontface declaration, in order to obligue
> XeLaTeX to use that measure with that fontface?
>
> I'm thinking in something like Indesign paragraph styles. In order to have
> most control of typesetting, I would like to tell XeLaTeX something like
> this: For this kind of paragraph use this type settings, for that other use
> these others, etc. Is this the wrong way to think in LaTeXese?
>
> Cheers!
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The other problem this solution bears, is that the font leading remains
>> constant while the scale changes.
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I thought one should change somehow the scale of the math font,
>>> instead of the main document font...
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I know there's been a lot of discussion here on XeLaTeX and math fonts,
>>>> but I found nothing on correct font size.
>>>> If I use something like the following,
>>>>
>>>> \usepackage{mathpazo}
>>>> \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
>>>> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text}{Adobe Garamond Pro}
>>>>
>>>> and I use inline math formulae (e.g., "the variables $a$, $b$ and $c$",
>>>> etc.), the size of these formulae differs significantly from the main roman
>>>> font's size.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way of tweaking the math font size?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>>
>>>> Nicolas Vaughan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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