Changes

to use the font “Times-Roman” without any special rescaling,

it should in fact be equivalent to “Times-Roman at ’natural size’”.

For most fonts, this ‘natural size’ is 10 pt, but special display

or footnote fonts may have a different intended use size, and the

which is actually a better indication of the information the font

designer wants to convey.

That leaves the question of what the actual size is of a font used

for a modern font the “10 pt" is the _vertical_ space needed to enclose

all of the ascenders and descenders in the font when all the glyphs