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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I don't use LaTeX so am not sure how easy or
difficult it is to get at the specific font sizes you want - but if it is
difficult, it really shouldn't be. I would be against scaling because (as
you have discovered) it doesn't truly give the font size you are after but just
an approximation to it, with some unwanted side effects. (I do often use
scaling to achieve superiors and inferiors, though, since fonts typically
come with a defective set of superior and inferior characters, and the unwanted
side effects of scaling are much less noticeable in these
small-size reductions.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">In plain XeTeX you get a font at any size you
want simply by saying (for example)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">\font\timesthirteenpointtwofive = "Times New
Roman" at 13.25pt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">You can use any name you like for the font,
of course - that long one is quite convenient, I find, for loading the font, but
then some shorthand like \maintext is probably easier.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">But I don't know if (Xe)LaTeX will then
produce odd effects if you try to use a font that you have loaded in this
TeX-primitive way. You would also need to set \baselineskip manually,
and again LaTeX packages might behave oddly when you have done
that.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Good luck!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=meho_r@yahoo.com href="mailto:meho_r@yahoo.com">Meho R.</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
platforms</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:38 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> JunkEmail: [SPAM] Re: [XeTeX]
Font sizes and line spacings</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Thank
you John and Will. I'll keep in mind your advices (I've written them
down;).<BR><BR>Leading package is what I was looking for for some time now.
Thanks a lot :)<BR><BR>Still, remains the question: how to set font at
specific size (e.g. how to set main font to Adobe Garamond Pro at exactly
13pt)? I tried to make some simple calculation, but results aren't consistent.
Please correct me if I'm doing it wrong:<BR><BR>– I set "12pt" option to
\documentclass to get font at 12pt. No Scale option for main font
(\fontspec).<BR>– I set "10pt" option to \documentclass and Scale={1.2} to
\fontspec to get font at 12 pt. The two results aren't similar. Somehow, the
latter gives wider text and a little larger font. So, I guess that I can't get
exact size for a font this way.<BR></DIV><BR>
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