* Re: [XeTeX] vertical spacing
[not found] ` <20050209183102.4156@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
@ 2005-02-09 22:08 ` Hans Hagen
2005-02-09 23:52 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2005-02-09 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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
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* Re: Re: [XeTeX] vertical spacing
2005-02-09 22:08 ` [XeTeX] vertical spacing Hans Hagen
@ 2005-02-09 23:52 ` Adam Lindsay
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From: Adam Lindsay @ 2005-02-09 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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