[XeTeX] selecting font size

[peter wilson]

Sam Putman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>As far as I remember, if you use memoir in the article emulation mode, the command \chapter works in the same way as \section in the article class.
>>>
>>>Yes. But I misread Herb's remarks and thought he simply wanted to do away with the numbers altogether. Nevertheless, what I get with just the article option in memoir class is \chapter starts at 1. If you use a section command /before/ a chapter, then you'll probably get a 0.1 for it. Is that the problem?
>>>
>>
>>Howdy,
>>
>>The real article class doesn't have chapters at all; the hierarchy starts at sections.
>>
> 
> 
> Note that this is important behavior: an "article" is supposed to be
> something you can embed, if you choose, as a "chapter" in a "book" and
> everything should automatically work.
> 
> Memoir's manual says this about article emulation:
> 
> "article    typesetting simulates the article class, but the \chapter
> command is not disabled. Chapters do not start a new page and chapter
> headings are typeset like a section heading. The numbering of figures,
> etc., is continuous and not per chapter. However, a \part command
> still puts its heading on a page by itself."
> 
> To be honest, I'm not sure to what purpose this option is provided,
> that is, what the use case is. If writing an article, labeling the
> sections with the \chapter command can only cause problems later, if
> one wants to then treat the article as a chapter.

     The `use case' is that all too often I had started a document as an 
article and then had to change it to a report, and of course the other 
way, starting as a report and ending as an article. This meant that I 
had to keep on changing \section to \chapter, etc., or changing \chapter 
to \section, etc.  I designed memoir so that I could/would always use 
\chapter and the article option would make it all look like an article 
without having to change anything in the body of the document.

> 
> Memoir is great but there's inevitable tradeoffs: by providing more
> options, it's more complex, and one needs to get more used to issuing
> commands like \setsecnumdepth directly to get the behavior desired.
> 
> Fortunately the manual is excellent!
>
Thank you
Peter W.


> cheers,
> -Sam.
> 
> 
> 
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