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    If you resize in bp, it is better to keep the ratio to baseline the same i.e., \fontsize{12bp}{14bp}. Loading babel with [english,latin]{babel} will improve the examples. The real word will be much longer due to bad hyphenation.
    – yannisl
    Commented Nov 8, 2011 at 6:45
  • Thanks; I wanted to keep the baseline reference the same across the examples to highlight the effect of 12bp over 12pt, hence the use of \fontsize{12bp}{14pt}.
    – Werner
    Commented Nov 8, 2011 at 7:18
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    Changing a such generic command \p@ has severe side effects. \p@ is also used in calculations completely independent from font size/spacing stuff. For example, \usepackage[pdftex]{color}...\textcolor[RGB]{255,0,0}{...} will break with an error message, because 255/255 is now 1.00374 and larger than the allowed maximum value 1. Commented Sep 4, 2014 at 2:37
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    See tex.stackexchange.com/questions/352580/… for a case where changing the value of \p@ makes for spectacular failure.
    – egreg
    Commented Feb 7, 2017 at 21:23
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    Werener it would be best to delete the suggestion to redefine \p@ (I already have problems wih some journal classes doing this), it completly breaks any packages such as graphicx using tex dimen arithmetic Commented Apr 4, 2022 at 7:27