[Tex/LaTex] Determine KOMA-Script section title font size

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I have a document using scrbook as document class. Somewhere during the text I would like certain words to have exactly the same font size as the section titles.

Consulting the documentation, I found out that for class options headings=big|normal the section title font size is Large, while for headings=small it is large.

How can I always have the proper font size in case I switch to headings=small without manually replacing all local font size declarations? In other words: how can I extract and transfer the current section title font size to some other text?

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\documentclass[headings=small]{scrbook}

\newcommand*\fontsizeofsectionheadings{\usefontofkomafont{section}}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Test}
\section{chapter}
I need {\fontsizeofsectionheadings words} as {\fontsizeofsectionheadings big} as the section titles, even if \verb|headings=small|.
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Custom font sizes inside section titles

You may define a very tiny font just like the standard font commands:

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\Tiny}{\@setfontsize\Tiny{3pt}{4pt}}
\makeatother

This may be used like \Large or \large. I've used 3pt here, because \tiny is already 5pt at article without size option. So:

\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\Tiny}{\@setfontsize\Tiny{5pt}{6pt}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\section{This text is normal {\Tiny This text is very tiny}}
\section{This text is normal {\tiny This text is tiny}}
\end{document}

Would show same font sizes.

BTW: Maybe package relsize would also be interesting for you:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{relsize}
\begin{document}
\section{This text is normal {\relsize{-4} This text is very tiny}}
\end{document}

This allows to set sizes not absolute but relative.

[Tex/LaTex] titlesec section font size incorrect

Your example compiles and gives no errors (other than mycommands1 being unknown) and gives the correct and desired results. So the most likely cause is that this private package contains some redefinition of \section that overwrites the earlier settings, or perhaps loads some more packages that do this. So check what is in there (or disable it for a test).

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