[Tex/LaTex] Set fixed font size in floating tables with floatrow package

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The floatrow package allows global changes to the font size in floating tables with commands such as font = small (cf. section 3.1.2 of the documentation). But such settings only change the relative size of the font.

In some cases, as in Change font inside document to specific point size, the font size needs to be fixed rather than relative. How can I set a fixed size for my floating tables with floatrow? Borrowing from the solution to the linked question above, I tried just specifying \floatsetup{font = {doublespacing, \fontsize{9}{11}\selectfont}}, but this only resulted in an error.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum, setspace}
    \doublespacing
\usepackage{floatrow}
    \floatplacement{table}{hbtp}
    \floatsetup{font = doublespacing}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{table}
    \begin{tabular}{*4{l}}
        A & B & C & D\\
        x & w & y & z\\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4\\
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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Define a "caption font":

\usepackage{floatrow}
\DeclareCaptionFont{Small}{\fontsize{9}{11}\selectfont}
\floatsetup{font={doublespacing,Small}}

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{fancybox,environ}

\NewEnviron{textinoval}
  {\def\trysize{10.5pt}\def\tryblskip{12.5pt}%
   \retry}
\makeatletter
\def\retry{%
  \ifdim\trysize<5.5pt
    \WARNING\expandafter\@gobble
  \else
    \expandafter\@firstofone
  \fi
  {\edef\trysize{\the\dimexpr\trysize-0.5pt\relax}%
   \edef\tryblskip{\the\dimexpr\tryblskip-0.5pt\relax}%
   \sbox0{\begin{minipage}{.45\textwidth}
   \begingroup\edef\x{\endgroup
     \noexpand\fontsize{\trysize}{\tryblskip}\noexpand\selectfont}\x
   \BODY\end{minipage}}%
  }%
  \dimen0=\dimexpr\ht0+\dp0\relax
  \ifdim\dimen0>.3\textwidth
    \expandafter\retry
  \else
    \expandafter\outputoval
  \fi}
\makeatletter

\def\WARNING{\sbox{0}{WARNING}}

\def\outputoval{\ovalbox{\begin{minipage}[c][.35\textwidth]{.5\textwidth}
  \begin{center}\usebox{0}\end{center}\end{minipage}}}
\begin{document}

\begin{textinoval}
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
\end{textinoval}

\begin{textinoval}
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
\end{textinoval}

\begin{textinoval}
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
\end{textinoval}

\begin{textinoval}
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
This text might be too large to fit into the (.35x.50)$\cdot$textwidth box,
in which case the font size should be decreased to make it fit.
\end{textinoval}

\end{document}

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Here are some explanations. First of all, the \NewEnviron-defined environment gathers its contents. This contents is typeset in a "private" box and if it fits the size requirements it's passed for final typesetting; otherwise we try at a size half a point less and redo until the requirements are respected. One can redefine \WARNING as wished; it will be come into action when the recursion is started and the font is already at 5pt size.

[Tex/LaTex] How to i change the fontsize with KOMA-script

You mention "tables that have been created to fit exactly 11pt before". If you didn't receive "dozens of warnings" then, I suppose you created those tables using the (default) 11pt document class option. This option, however, is not identical to issuing \changefontsizes{11pt}:

With the 11pt option, you load the file scrsize11pt.clo which, among other things, includes the definition of the various font size switching commands. (\normalsize, BTW, issues \@setfontsize\normalsize\@xipt{13.6}, with \@xipt translating into 10.95, not 11pt.) All those commands use point sizes which are available in the (non-scalable) default font Computer Modern.
With \changefontsizes{11pt} OTOH, \normalsize features a point size of exactly 11pt, and the point size of all other switching commands is calculated based on that of \normalsize. Because of that, size substitutions become necessary with Computer Modern, and this is what the "dozens of warnings" are about.

The solution is to use a scalable font (e.g., Latin Modern) instead of Computer Modern. This will relase you from all but one warning (from the class, "Using fallback calculation to set up font sizes"). (If you're daring, issue \makeatletter\input{scrsize11pt.clo}\makeatother inside floats, but .clo files weren't designed to be loaded mid-document, so no guarantees.)

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