Re: feature request: abs-fontsize available for all text grobs

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi,

Blame it on late-night craziness…  =\
I just did another test with staff sizes 8 and 80, and the fonts do seem to be 
absolute(ly the same).

Sorry for the noise.
Please confirm currency for bounty.

Thanks,
Kieren.

On 2013-Aug-1, at 09:21, Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Kieren,
> 
> I did some checks on the absolute font-sizes:
> - If you do a stencil-add on a stencil created via grob-interpret-markup and 
> interpret-markup inside a normal markup, they exactly match-
> - If you do a pixel by pixel compare (I did in gimp) a Lyric markup with an 
> abs-font-size with different global-staff-sizes, they also match ...
> ... but you have to move the letter. IMO this is reasonable, because 
> different staff-sizes mean different scaling of anything else but these 
> absolute scaled fonts.
> Now if you import a simple PDF with a single 'X' 42pt into Libre/OpenOffice, 
> it will show the found font-sizes of the text-objects.
> If you create the PDF with LibreOffice Century Schoolbook L 42pt and reimport 
> that PDF, you will have exactly 42pt.
> If you create PDF files with an absolute-font-size of 42pt, it will result in 
> 41,9pt in the reimported file - regardless of the global-staff-size.
> AFAICS the font-size is absolute, but there seems to be a calculation 
> inaccuracy of 0.1pt.
> 
> Best, Jan-Peter
> 
> 
> 
> Am 01.08.2013 06:33, schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
>> Here's a side-by-side comparison with the default staff size (on the right) 
>> and set-global-size 25 (on the left), each blown up to 600% in a PDF viewer:
>> 
> 
> <grob-interpret-markup-abs-fontsize3.ly><abs-font-size-14.ly><abs-font-size-24.ly>