MAG(1)

🎀 MAG(1) · General Commands Manual 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

bestie, meet mag 💖 it computes TeX fontsizes and magsteps. literally the tool for when your fonts need to be the perfect size 🔥

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mag [-Rdpi] magstep . . .

mag [-r] [-Rdpi] fontsize . . .

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the text opens with delim $$, which is just part of the page, so don't panic 🙈

mag calculates fontsizes from magsteps ✨ TeX fonts come in two flavors: true sized fonts, or magnifications. ngl the fontsize of a true sized font is just the resolution of the printer (ex. 300) 🖨️

for a font magnified n magsteps, the math goes like this: 1.2^n times 300, then rounded to its nearest integer value 🧮 it's giving clean math energy fr fr

and TeX font names usually have four parts: the name (cmr), the pointsize (10), the type (pk), and the fontsize (360). so a full one looks like cmr10.360pk 💜 iconic naming

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

the result of mag -R240 -2 0 0.5 1 will be:

167 240 263 288

the inverse function is what the -r option is for 🔄 so mag -r -R240 167 240 263 288 gives you the fontsteps back:

-2 0 0.5 1

and the UNIX shells let you do command substitution, so you can chain them together like this 🫶

mag -r -R240 `mag -R240 -2 0 0.5 1`

🧚 DATE 🧚

18 December, 1989

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Piet Tutelaers University of Technology Eindhoven

Maintained in TeX Live. please send bug reports or other correspondence to tex-k@tug.org (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k) 💌

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bestie, that's MAG(1) all wrapped up 🌈 last updated 1 Feb 2016, so go slay your fontsizes responsibly 💀✨