GA.EDI@ISUMVS.BITNET (Marie Mayer) (02/02/90)
>Re: the relationship of "pitch" and "point." 12 pitch=12 points; 10 pitch= >10 points. For correct spacing, set your leading at 12 points; the type >you insert can be smaller (10/12) as long as your leading is equal. The pitch of a font is only applicable to fixed-pitch fonts, i.e., those on typewriters of earlier days (and still some today). A 10-pitch font has 10 character positions per horizontal inch. Point size refers to the height of a font or characters rather than to the width. A 10-point font is one in which the measurement from the top of the tallest ascender to the bottom of the lowest descender is 10 points. Point size usually refers to proportional fonts, although you could measure fixed fonts in that way also. So much for nitty-gritty details. As stated in the earlier message by Michael Stoner, set your leading at 12 points for a form to be used on a typewriter and then it doesn't really matter what size of type you use as long as it's less than 12 points high. Hopefully, there is enough space in the blanks to be filled in by the typewriter so that it doesn't matter whether the typewriter prints 10 or 12 characters to the inch. (Can you tell I used to work in forms design for a printing company?) Marie Mayer GA.EDI@ISUMVS.BITNET Iowa State University