Re: Text font sizes

[Urs Liska]

Am 17.09.2012 13:28, schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> On 17/09/2012 13:11, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Am 17.09.2012 12:59, schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> > > It does not use an absolute font size. The size is relative to the staff
> > > size.
> > Thanks for this information.
> > Of course I realize that it is relative to the staff size. But in the
> > end Lily _has_ to print text at a specific font size, isn't it?
> > So there's no way to determine the actually used font sizes?
> >
> > This means if I want identical text elements from other programs I do
> > have to find out by trial and error ...
> One can certainly deduce the font size from the staff size and the
> font-size of the markup, but I have no idea how exactly.
Does anybody else can tell me how LilyPond makes the relation between 
staff size and markup point size?
> One other way to make sure the headers/footers are to your liking is to
> adjust the header/footer markups to use \abs-fontsize instead of the
> \large etc. This has the advantage that a change to the staff size does
> not change the headers/footers.
> The disadvantage is that you need to copy all header/footer markup
> fields (i.e. the (even|odd)(Header|Footer)Markup variable) in the
> \header block to your (include) files and adjust them.
Thanks. Might be an option.
And wouldn't even be problematic because I have custom headers anyway.
Bot OTOH LaTeX doesn't use fixed point sizes in the first place, so this 
approach might be somewhat against the concept of both software packages.
> > > > so they don't interfere with LateX's page margins (or is there an
> > > > option to pdfpages that I didn't find so far and that allows to print
> > > > headers and footers _on top_ of the included pages?).
> > > - I'd have to find the solution to crop and place the LIlyPond pages
> > > The following Q&A solves that issue:
> > >
> > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50388/attached-external-pdf-file-is-not-showing-page-number
> > Thanks for these hints (sorry, this is still quite confusing for me,
> > so I may ask unnecessary questions every now and then). I think this
> > will be enough to get me going.
> Basically, it says that pdfpages DOES print the latex header/footer on
> top of the included pdf pages. The reason why you don't see any
> headers/footers is that pdfpages explicitly sets the page style to empty
> (i.e. no header/footers) for the included pages. So to get the latex
> headers/footers, you have to restore the default page style for each
> included page (using the pagecommand option).
Ouch. Really should have found that myself :-( Apologies for the noise.

Best
Urs
> Cheers,
> Reinhold