[NTG-context] Re: learning about the grid

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

madiazm.eoicc@gmail.com schrieb am 19.11.2023 um 23:17:
> Thanks, Pablo and Henning
>
> I suppose I am making a mistake with my setupinterlinearspace. My school asks for Times New Roman (I use termes) 12pt and onehalfspacing. In latex I used linespread{1.3} and so I supposed setting ConTeXt with setupinterlinearspace[1.3ex] was the right way (I read somewhere that vertical spaces should be measured in ex and horizontal spaces in em; maybe it's not widely accepted).
> I tried setting my interlinearspace to 3ex and it looked much better, but I must compare it with a onehalfspacing of wordprocessors to be sure it is not such different.

The unit ex uses the x-height value of the font as dimension, the 
x-height is the height of the lowercase x (actually it's a value in the 
font which is most cases equal to the height of the lowercase x) as can 
be seen in the output of the following example.

\starttext

\heightofstring{x}

\the\exheight

\stoptext

To get one and a half line of interlinespace with ConTeXt you can set a 
fixed value with the \setupinterlinespace command.

\setupinterlinespace[line=18pt]

\showgrid

\starttext
\samplefile{lorem}
\stoptext

Wolfgang

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