On 11/2/2023 9:00 PM, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Ok. But then that means that the designsizes table will be used all the time, including when design sizes are disabled, right? Which would mean that I _must_ define the regular size as a fallback.
they are not really design sizes but more 'designed for s specific purpose like display' .. so typesetting a 16 pt bodyfont in display is not a good idea ... otherwise, if someone watched the text on a beamer you'd have to use the display variant for everything as that definitely goes over 10pt
I think I see your point. I think we can still talk about design sizes but, instead of thinking in absolute sizes, we would want to think in sizes relative to the font setup.
indeed, and even more abstract: running text vs headings vs title pages
That is, instead of saying ‘Caption shall be used for sizes 6.5pt and below, SmText for 9.5pt and below etc.’, we would want to say ‘Caption shall be used for 50% of the body font size and below, SmText for 75% and below, etc.’
i'm not sure what captions are for
This way, design sizes would be used ‘harmoniously’ no matter the scaling. A poster, for instance, would usually be viewed at such a distance that the apparent size of small text (typeset at, say, 25pt when the main text is at 50pt, therefore using Caption) would match the apparent size of caption text in a regular document typeset at 12pt and read from a normal distance.
Make sense?
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