Re: Re: [XeTeX] vertical spacing

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

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(!).
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