On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:59:54PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > I am not a typographer, I just play one on the Internet, so I am not > > sure what someone who was actually typesetting a book would do in > > that situation. My guess would be that they would, basically, do > > what SILE does right now (and what TeX does; perhaps Knuth knew what > > he was doing after all) - use consistent 14.4pt (or whatever) line > > spacing in situation (1) and use larger line spacing which fits in > > the descender in situation (2). But I would have to ask a real > > typesetter to know. > > Knuth knew *very well* what he was doing, and the TeX typesetting > model works just fine for almost all cases, even more than 30 years > later.
That is such a big claim, judging by the amount of people strugling with TeX line spacing on tex.stackexchange.com: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/line-spacing > Given that the typographic values from the `OS/2' SFNT table are crap > in far too much fonts, and that Apple and MS differ on the right > approach, I would really not using it. Your (1) and (2) are the way > to go, IMHO. I have only seen a handful of utterly broken fonts, the rest of the world are doing just fine. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
