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Article #10592Aesthetically-pleasing \baselineskip's
From: ritley
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:12
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:12
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I am creating an \input file for myself, to define various font sizes -- ninepoint, tenpoint, etc. (Not that this hasn't already been done by many people before.) I know that typographic artists devote quite a lot of time to structuring fonts for maximum aesthetic appeal. What I would like to know is whether, given a font size, there is an "optimal" \baselineskip for "single space" and "double space" type. I can obviously adjust the values until I get something which is aesthetically pleasing to _me_. But is there some sort of typographical standard? Many thanks!
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu!ritley From: ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu () Subject: Aesthetically-pleasing \baselineskip's Message-ID: <C17JH4.C6C@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Reply-To: ritley@uiucmrl.bitnet () Organization: Materials Research Lab Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:12:39 GMT Lines: 21