[XeTeX] fontsizes and interlinear space

[Ralf Stubner]

Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> writes:

> What you might want to do is set the line spacing slightly wider than  
> LaTeX's default, if you're using a font like this, so that the lines  
> are always spaced sufficiently to allow accented uppercase letters  
> without the risk of clashes.

Since GFS Didot is rather large compared to the em-square, this is
indeed a good idea. Similar to the situation with Palatino I would start
with something like

\linespread{1.05}

to get a 5% increase in linespacing. 

cheerio
ralf