From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Specifying leading?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:17:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F24F5B29-D892-49EC-B37E-53E49CF1D3FB@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB171B2.4090902@gmail.com>
Am 14.05.2012 um 22:57 schrieb Bill Meahan:
> How does one specify leading in ConTeXt?
>
> In traditional typography, it is common to specify the type size and leading to indicate the inter-line spacing of a block of text. Setting type "solid" means to use no spacing between lines - not usually a good idea ;-)
>
> More often, good typography requires a minimum of two points of leading between adjacent lines and might be specified as 12/14 or 12/15 meaning to set twelve-point type on a fourteen or fifteen point "leading" resulting in inter-line spacing of two and three points respectively.
>
> Is there an easy way to specify this in ConTeXt or must I muck about with baseline skip?
>
> I have tried looking this up on the wiki and in the font documentation but it either is not there or is worded in such a way I am not recognizing it.
>
> I'm using MkIV
%\setupbodyfont[12pt] % not necessary because 12pt is the default font size
\setupinterlinespace[line=14pt] % default: line=2.8ex
\starttext
\input knuth
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-14 20:57 Bill Meahan
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2012-05-14 21:29 ` Bill Meahan
2012-05-14 21:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-05-14 22:56 ` Bill Meahan
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