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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I'll leave LaTeX users to respond on your
technical points. As to the point-size/interline space ratio, the decision
will depend partly on the font (Baskerville has rather tall capitals but other
fonts don't, and could tolerate a slightly reduced interlinear leading while
still giving a reasonably comfortable effect for the reader). The
text-width of your document is also a very important consideration:
Something like 12/15 might be great for a large book at 32 picas width, but
would be hopelessly too large for say a standard 24-pica text width, where
perhaps 10/12 would be OK for a reasonably chunky font, maybe something like
10.5/13 for a more delicate font. It's partly an aesthetic decision, but
should always be taken with a view to the most comfortable experience for the
reader: the eye should not have to travel too far from the end of one line
to the start of the next, and the lines should not be so tightly together that
the reader has to strain to follow the text. The best typography, like the
best copy-editing, is (nearly) always invisible - readers shouldn't be
aware of it as they absorb the content of the text.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Not that it's always easy to put the theory
into practice!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 16, 2008 2:23 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> JunkEmail: [SPAM] [XeTeX] Font
sizes and line spacings</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>I have couple of questions, one is general about a typographic
topic, and others are about fonts and spacing in XeTeX:<BR><BR>1. Which is the
ideal ratio font_size/line_spacing? In some Adobe docs I saw that they mention
(indirectly) 11/13 pt, 12/14 pt, 13/15 pt? On the other side, some apps
automatically set 11/13.2 pt, 12/14.4 pt, 13/15.6 pt. So which one is
recommended?<BR><BR>2. How to change/set size of main font in XeTeX and retain
line spacing (I mean default LaTeX line spacing)? I know that Scale option
isn't for this because it doesn't add enough line space. So, how to do it?
E.g. I want Adobe Garamond Pro for main font, exactly 13pt in size, with
default LaTeX line spacing for that font size.<BR><BR>3. Is there a mechanism
to set ratios mentioned in point 1.: e.g. How to get 13/15 for Adobe Garamond
Pro as main font in XeTeX? <BR><BR>4. If I set \lineskiplimit to negative
value (-1000) and need to set spacing manually through \setstretch command
(package setspace), how to calculate ratio from 1. and
3.?<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>
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