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

[David Kastrup]

Jan-Peter Voigt <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Does the patch in
<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3483> help?

-- 
David Kastrup