[PLUG] LaTeX: relative size

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

hi,

i like my acronyms to be a little smaller if all-caps, and so i
usually write them {\small ACRONYM} in LaTeX, which turns out nicely.
However, this only works if the surrounding text is \normalsize. If I
moved something to something like, say, a footnote, the results are
horrible, since \small is two steps larger than \footnotesize. in HTML
(blarg!), <small> will decrease the font size by one, not set it to an
absolute and I am wondering if there is an equivalent for LaTeX?

thanks,

martin;              (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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