Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Scaling Minion Pro and math

[bartvde]

Hi all,

I recently started experimenting with Minion Pro for my PhD thesis, which has lots of math in it.

After switching from 10pt Computer Modern, I noticed that Minion Pro 10pt is somewhat smaller. Is this normal? Palatino on the other hand does not look smaller.

So I wanted to slighlty scale the Minion Pro 10pt. (Using 11pt instead of 10pt is too big.) As far as I know, the MinionPro package does not allow scaling, so I used otfinst. This allows arbirtray scaling. Now after scaling with a factor of 1.05, minion pro looks visually equally big as Computer Modern. (Whether 1.05 is ok can be debated, fact remains that I want it scaled such that it is smaller than 11pt).


Below is an MWE and I attached the three results as PNG. Looking at the PNG, it may not be clear that Minion is smaller, but I really feel it is (I also check with other people).

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
% standard version is cm.png
%\usepackage[scaled=1.0]{minion}   % uncomment for minion.png
%\usepackage[scaled=1.05]{minion}  % uncomment for minion_scaled.png

\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
\end{document}

Computer Moder vs Minion Pro

cm_minion.png (58.11 KiB) Viewed 2626 times

However, only the text is scaled, not the math. This is clearly visible in the following code.

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[scaled=1.5]{minion}

\begin{document}
Let $x=\epsilon$ be given.
\end{document}

Minion Pro 10pt, scaled 1.5

scaled_math.png (8.4 KiB) Viewed 2626 times

Is there a way to fix this, i.e., scale both math and text?

[Montag]

After switching from 10pt Computer Modern, I noticed that Minion Pro 10pt is somewhat smaller. Is this normal? Palatino on the other hand does not look smaller.

I'd say yes, because --in short-- they have different em-values if I understood the following articles correctly (read them a long time ago though).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_size which equals the "pt"-article and lead me to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_(typography)