[Ipe-discuss] Increasing base point size

[Sherif Ghali]

Thanks. I can confirm that this also works when we insert
\usepackage{times} or \usepackage{helvet}
\renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault} before \makeatletter.

On 29 June 2017 at 03:04, Guillaume Salagnac <
guillaume.salagnac at insa-lyon.fr> wrote:

>
> to set the base font size to 12pt, you can copy-paste the following in the
> "latex preamble" of your "document properties" :
>
> \makeatletter
> \renewcommand*\@ptsize{2}
> \let\small\relax
> \let\footnotesize\relax
> \let\scriptsize\relax
> \let\tiny\relax
> \let\large\relax
> \let\Large\relax
> \let\LARGE\relax
> \let\huge\relax
> \input{size1\@ptsize.clo}
> \makeatother
>
> (via http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3477 )
>
> Cheers,
> -G
>
> > Le 28 juin 2017 à 17:51, Sherif Ghali <shghali at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > To increase the base point size in latex to 12pt, one would start with
> >
> >     \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> >
> > To increase the base point size for a latex document mid-document one
> might add
> >
> >     \fontsize{12}{12}\selectfont
> >
> > to the preamble. Ref: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/4140/9549
> >
> > Since Ipe wraps in \documentclass itself, I tried using the latter
> method to increase the base point to 12pt, but that didn't work. Can you
> suggest another way?
> >
> > You can see that the base point size is different by comparing the
> output of running
> >
> >     iperender -pdf 12pt-base.ipe 12pt-base.pdf
> >
> > on the ipe/xml file:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE ipe SYSTEM "ipe.dtd">
> > <ipe version="70206" creator="Ipe 7.2.7">
> > <info created="D:20170628114219" modified="D:20170628114232"/>
> > <ipestyle name="letter-portrait">
> > <layout paper="612 792" origin="0 0" frame="612 792"/>
> > </ipestyle>
> > <page>
> > <layer name="alpha"/>
> > <view layers="alpha" active="alpha"/>
> > <path layer="alpha" stroke="black">
> > 0 792 m
> > 0 0 l
> > 612 0 l
> > 612 792 l
> > h
> > </path>
> > <text transformations="translations" pos="192 640" stroke="black"
> type="label" width="67.123" height="6.815" depth="1.93"
> valign="baseline">Greetings, 12pt</text>
> > </page>
> > </ipe>
> >
> > with the result of pdflatex on the file
> >
> > \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> > \usepackage{helvet}
> > \renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}
> > \begin{document}
> > \thispagestyle{empty}
> > Greetings, 12pt
> > \end{document}
> >
> > The same issue arises with 11pt, but then it's harder to see that the
> two font sizes are not equal.
> >
> > -Sherif Ghali
> >
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