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? Why do people come up with such criteria :(( Aditya
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]
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. But I guess they do not really expect you to do anything with the cpi statement, unless you are using a typewriter. Best, Taco
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
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
That is what I found. Can I tweak spacefactor and spaceskip to give an impression that there are 15 cpi.
you can create a shinked font i.e. make an instance with .85% wide chars (contrary to an extended one)
I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and others are blindly copying them. Maybe, I should typeset everything in monotype font :)
cm is kind of monotype times ... you mean monospaced -) there is a narrow latin modern tt variant you can use ... 132 chars on 80 Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and others are blindly copying them. Maybe, I should typeset everything in monotype font :)
I remember we had a ball-based typewriter at Kluwer Academic that had variable width characters as well as different fonts: one per ball. We had a whole bunch of these balls in a cardboard box. So maybe, they even had variant widths like Times10 @ 10cpi, Times10 @ 12cpi ? Best, Taco
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