I'm using tikz to create color boxes containing text. However I haven't been able to set font size within these boxes using pts.
I found a snippet in this question that defines a Boxed
command:
\newcommand{\Boxed}[2][]{%
% #1 = box draw/fill options
% #2 = text
\settowidth{\LengthOfText}{\mbox{#2}}%
\pgfmathsetlength{\LengthOfTextExceedingLineWidth}
{\LengthOfText-\linewidth}
\pgfmathsetlength{\TextWidth}{\LengthOfTextExceedingLineWidth > 0pt ? \linewidth : \LengthOfText}%
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline, inner sep=2pt, outer sep=0]
\tikzstyle{every node}=[font=\small]
\node [text width=\TextWidth, #1] (Origin) {#2};
(Origin.south west) rectangle (Origin.north east) ;
\end{tikzpicture}%
}
I've modified it a little, however using a tikzstyle
I'm only able to set font to things like \small
, \tiny
, etc. I would like to set font size to 10pt.
Best Answer
One way to get the desired font size, since you don't mind the result in a box (which means no line or page breaking} is to just scale it by a factor of desired-point-size/document-point-size.
In this MWE, the document is 12pt, while I want the
\Boxed
in 10pt, so I use a\scalebox
with a scale of 10/12 = 0.8333