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[87.175.205.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k6sm37635205wiy.7.2012.05.14.14.17.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 14 May 2012 14:17:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FB171B2.4090902@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=74.125.82.41; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0QH9VhqQh - adfdcceae167 - 20120514 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:76178 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________