Fridge mathematics
OK, I've looked at some "official" fridge poetry, and it's printed in 20pt Times New Roman on segments that are a fraction less than 1cm high. The baseline is not a fixed distance from the bottom: rather, the word is centred in the tile.
Next question: am I making a rod for my own back by doing this in TeX? I'm basically throwing away the layout engine, and putting "cut here" outlines around the symbols is going to be a bit of a hassle. What are the alternatives?
Last question (for the arty types): it would be nice to put some sort of glaze on the tiles to stop them getting grubby with use (the magnetic paper is normal paper with magnetic backing). Any suggestions?
Update: 20pt text in TeX is no problem. Times in LaTeX is no problem. Both together is a bit trickier (I had to load the font at a smaller size and scale it in the end, and then it screws up the accents, so I've gone back to 20pt Computer Modern). michiexile's code and some messing about with struts, \spaceskip and \lineskip got the words-in-boxes effect. I've currently got three problems:
1) I can't seem to turn off the huge margin at the top, which is wasting lots of potentially useful space.
2) Math mode has its own font size setup, which I have yet to grok. Consequently, mathematical symbols are all in 10pt.
3) TeX doesn't seem to like display math mode in \fboxes. Dunno what's going on there.
Learning PostScript is starting to look increasingly attractive :-)
Next question: am I making a rod for my own back by doing this in TeX? I'm basically throwing away the layout engine, and putting "cut here" outlines around the symbols is going to be a bit of a hassle. What are the alternatives?
Last question (for the arty types): it would be nice to put some sort of glaze on the tiles to stop them getting grubby with use (the magnetic paper is normal paper with magnetic backing). Any suggestions?
Update: 20pt text in TeX is no problem. Times in LaTeX is no problem. Both together is a bit trickier (I had to load the font at a smaller size and scale it in the end, and then it screws up the accents, so I've gone back to 20pt Computer Modern). michiexile's code and some messing about with struts, \spaceskip and \lineskip got the words-in-boxes effect. I've currently got three problems:
1) I can't seem to turn off the huge margin at the top, which is wasting lots of potentially useful space.
2) Math mode has its own font size setup, which I have yet to grok. Consequently, mathematical symbols are all in 10pt.
3) TeX doesn't seem to like display math mode in \fboxes. Dunno what's going on there.
Learning PostScript is starting to look increasingly attractive :-)