On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Hi,
I am writing a document where the guidelines say that I should use Times Roman font at 10pt with 15 characters per inch and 6 lines per inch. I am using thermes from tex gyre rscaled=1.015 as the bodyfont. At this setting I get a bit more less than 6 lines per inch (which is fine) but roughtly 17 characters per inch. Any way I could setup fonts so that both these criteria is automatically met?
This should give you exactly 6 lpi @ 10pt
\setupbodyfontenvironment[10pt][interlinespace=12bp]
Thank you. Now I see an advantage of bp over pt.
Why do people come up with such criteria :((
The average character width in times roman is only a little over 4pt when loaded at 10pt, resulting in more than 18cpi, so you could try to explain to them that the 10pt and 15cpm contradict eachother.
That is what I found. Can I tweak spacefactor and spaceskip to give an impression that there are 15 cpi.
But I guess they do not really expect you to do anything with the cpi statement, unless you are using a typewriter.
I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and others are blindly copying them. Maybe, I should typeset everything in monotype font :) Aditya