SBL LaTeX

Upgraded and got new message about relsize

Asked by JohnDave Medina

I upgraded my distribution to MacTex 2011 and now I ended up with a new message (or at least one that I hadn't seen before):

(/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/relsize/relsize.sty

Package relsize Warning: Failed to get list of font sizes.
(relsize) Falling back to old definition. on input line 81.

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I downloaded the latest svn of SBL LaTex a couple of months back, so my guess is everything should be current in regard to that. Any thoughts?

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JohnDave Medina (johndavemedina) said : 		#1

I think I figured this one out. It seems like it has to do with Times New Roman being a non-scalable font. My main concern was with making small caps. The solution for me is to do two \textsc commands when I need small caps next to a normal capitalized letter. Thus, in sbllangbase.sty, I modified the \Lord and \Yahweh macros to:

\newcommand{\Lord}[0] {%
  L\textsc{\textsc{ord}}\xspace%
}
\newcommand{\Yahweh}[0] {%
  Y\kern-.3ex\textsc{\textsc{ahweh}}\xspace%
}

With only one \textsc, the small caps was only marginally smaller than the normal capitalized letter.