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I typeset a scanned and ocred copy of an old book. It used a moderately common font except with extremely narrow line spacing. None of the tools I had support
by ectopod 6y ago
I typeset a scanned and ocred copy of an old book. It used a moderately common font except with extremely narrow line spacing. None of the tools I had supported a line spacing narrower than the spacing chosen by the font designer, so I had to create a hacked version of the font to make it work.
Traditionally, the leading was separate from the type. Nowadays it isn't, and that can be a huge pain in the bum.
- JxLS-cpgbe0 6y agoIs this app-development specific? In CSS the font-size and leading are easily decoupled.
- ectopod 6y agoI'm not sure what you're asking. As a software developer, supporting negative leading isn't hard, but as an end user (as I was in the example above) that's no help if the software developer hasn't done the work.
- mcguire 6y agoI believe the problem there is that the leading was specified separately from the font and was negative. In the old days, that would have required filing down each type element.