Adam Lindsay wrote: (to another list on the topic of fonts and grids)
Okay, it's clearly font dependent, and I chose two typical ones: American Typewriter and Optima Regular. Going through some typical fonts available on my system, it becomes clear that Hoefler Text is the best case.
here are a few secrets: \showminimalbaseline and \setupinterlinespace [height=.72, depth=.28] you may want to change the inlinespace settings depending on the max height/depth values of a font 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:08:03 +0100:
here are a few secrets:
\showminimalbaseline
and
\setupinterlinespace [height=.72, depth=.28]
you may want to change the inlinespace settings depending on the max height/depth values of a font
Thanks, Hans. I remember seeing those in the Style or Details manuals, but I never really appreciated their importance. A bit of trial and error, and I have tighter lines than I earlier thought possible. Still, these Mac fonts, used through XeTeX, have some very generous vertical spacing. The worst so far was Optima, which, when used at 12pt, was reporting 11pt height and 4pt depth(!). -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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