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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Aesthetically-pleasing \baselineskip's
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:08:36
- Organization: /pearl/homes/eijkhout/.organization
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- In-reply-to: ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:12:39 GMT
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- In article <C17JH4.C6C@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu () writes:
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- [...]
-
- 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.
-
- Double spacing is a typewriter habit. Period.
-
- Aesthetic appeal is not somehing that exists independently
- of what you are doing. I once set a piece of type with
- large baselineskip and raggedright, and someone immediately
- commented that it looked like a poem.
-
- Very general connotations of line distances:
-
- Tight spacing: academic book. Will be pored over, so
- doesn't have to be excessively readable. Books are expensive
- enough as they are so a bit of paper savings is appreciated.
-
- Normal spacing: (20% over?) novel, or just run-of-the-mill
- document. Readability is everything.
-
- Wide spacing: art book or volume of poems.
- The book is expensive enough as it
- is, so we might as well waste some more paper.
- Besides, the amount of text is limited, so
- spreading it out over the page will even improve
- the looks.
-
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