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Why is the line spacing greater for the Basic fonts?

April 26, 2017BASIC fonts greater line spacing

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Why is the line spacing greater for the Basic fonts?

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In some environments, stacked diacritics in Gentium could display as ‘chopped-off’. Gentium Basic has slightly wider default line spacing in order to avoid this problem. Most applications do, however, let you set the line spacing explicitly, so you can have the lines spaced precisely as you wish.