Re: Maintaining font-size regardless of staff-size

[David Kastrup]

Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden> writes:

> Thomas Morley-2 wrote
>> Hmm, there's still some horizontal difference.
>
> Hi Harm,
>
> The idea of adding 'pt was brilliant, because it lead me into the right
> direction:
>
> *The exact reason...*
> ... is the co-operation between the (outside) Pango world and the (inside)
> TeX-like world:
> An American (Pango) point is 1/72 inch, a TeX point used internally is
> 1/72.27 inch - that's all!
> This tiny deviation leads to an enormous mismatch between glyph and font
> metrics scaling.

Uh, that's 0.4% or so.  How does an "enormous mismatch" come about then?

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David Kastrup