- From: Paul Grosso <pbg@arbortext.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 08:15:03 EDT
- To: www-style@w3.org
> From: Hakon Lie <Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr> > > Typographers! > > If your font size is 12pt and the distance between base lines is 14 > pt, is leading then 2pt or 14pt? The literature has diverging opinions > on this, which -- if any -- is correct? Though both have at times been used, by far the more common in use recently--especially in the computerized typesetting world--is the latter, i.e., baseline-to-baseline measure, e.g., 14pt in your example. TeX, the Output Specification (aka FOSIs), and DSSSL are among those that measure "leading" as baseline-to-baseline. paul Paul Grosso VP Research, ArborText, Inc. and Chief Technical Officer, SGML Open Email: paul@arbortext.com
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