How to achieve true double space text in ConTeXt?

How to achieve true double space text in ConTeXt?

[Joel via ntg-context]

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I need to display one article within my book that is in double space, like what is a basic requirement in US colleges for turning in papers. Basically, I need readers to have lots of space above the text to be able to write some notes above every line.

This is a line of text.
% <-- here is the space between lines
% <-- this space here is as tall as a line of text.
% <-- here is the next space between lines
This is the next visible line of text.

The closest I can get is the "big" setting in `\setupinterlinespace`, but it isn't big enough. I've also tried manual measurements in cm, but I have no idea which setting is typographically good.

\setupinterlinespace[on, big]
    \startlinenumbering
        \input article
    \stoplinenumbering
\setupinterlinespace[off]

How can I achieve double space text in ConTeXt?
--Joel

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Re: How to achieve true double space text in ConTeXt?

[Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context]

Joel via ntg-context schrieb am 17.01.2022 um 17:18:
> I need to display one article within my book that is in double space, 
> like what is a basic requirement in US colleges for turning in papers. 
> Basically, I need readers to have lots of space above the text to be 
> able to write some notes above every line.
> 
> This is a line of text.
> % <-- here is the space between lines
> % <-- this space here is as tall as a line of text.
> % <-- here is the next space between lines
> This is the next visible line of text.
> 
> The closest I can get is the "big" setting in `\setupinterlinespace`, 
> but it isn't big enough. I've also tried manual measurements in cm, but 
> I have no idea which setting is typographically good.
> 
> \setupinterlinespace[on, big]
>      \startlinenumbering
>          \input article
>      \stoplinenumbering
> \setupinterlinespace[off]
> 
> How can I achieve double space text in ConTeXt?

The \setupinterlinspace accepts also numbers to choose a multiple of the 
default distance or you pass a dimension where you set a fixed value for 
the distance between the baselines.

%%%% begin example
\showgrid

\starttext

\samplefile{lorem}

\page

\start \setupinterlinespace[2]% 2 lines, also possible: 1.5, 3, ...
\samplefile{lorem}\par
\stop

\page

\start \setupinterlinespace[line=5.6ex]% also possible: 
\setupinterlinespace[5.6ex]
\samplefile{lorem}\par
\stop

\stoptext
%%%% end example

Wolfgang
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