Line height in resources pointed to

I followed the link to the COGA Personas document (which is good), but 
found it quite difficult to read because the lines were so close 
together.  The lines above and below tend to interfere with my reading 
of the current line.  Forgive me for not taking the time to look it up, 
but i'm trying to get some other stuff done, but felt like i ought to 
raise the issue.

Line height is currently set to 1.2.  Is that the recommendation?  I am 
able to read much more comfortably if the line height is set to 1.5 or 1.6.

By the way, line spacing requirements can be very different in non-Latin 
scripts.  I don't have data on specifically what the expected line 
heights would be for particular scripts, but i wonder whether it may be 
a useful exercise to see how the character heights tend to compare to 
Latin characters.  If you are interested, i suggest to go to 
https://r12a.github.io/scripts/switch.html and use the pulldown to 
select the fragment id "Baselines, line height, etc.".  You can then 
select various orthographies using one of the select controls just 
above.  It may not, as i say, give useable data for line height 
preferences, but it may give you a feeling for relative glyph sizes that 
will help as background.

Note, also that some scripts, like Thai, generally expect additional 
space between lines compared to Latin text, by convention.  And other 
scripts such as Japanese need space for annotations to occur over/below 
the line without changing the height of any given line.

hth
ri


> Jan McSorley <mailto:mcsorleyjan@gmail.com>
> 11 February 2025 at 16:32
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