![]() She married Baskerville within a month of her estranged husband's death. As Baskerville was setting up his printing and type business, he hired Sarah Eaves as his live-in housekeeper eventually, her husband Richard abandoned her and their five children, and Mrs Eaves became Baskerville's mistress and eventual helpmate with typesetting and printing. Like his typefaces, John Baskerville was, himself, a controversial character. These were all on the same page, set up in Word 2019, so the difference in metrics can't be explained by variations in the word processing software or the printer.Įdit to add: Looking at all the Baskerville fonts in the Megafonts NOW collection, if I want to standardize (which I do) I am considering deleting all three that I now have installed and installing either Baskerville Serial or Baskerville Sys, in order to have access to the special effects offered in those fonts.Mrs Eaves is named after Sarah Eaves, the woman who became John Baskerville's wife. It's especially disappointing when fonts that are named "Pro" (which we can assume is intended to imply "Professional") aren't what they are supposed to be. When I enlarged the type to 24 points, the three scales measured it as 20+, 24-, and 22. ![]() The line spacing was greater than 15 points on two, and measured exactly 17 points on the third. When I enlarged the type to 24 points, the three scales measured it as 20+, 22, and 22-.įor Baskerville Nova Pro, the uppercase character height measured 13 points on two of the scales, and 12 points on the third. When I enlarged the type to 24 points, the three scales measured it as 20+, 22, and 22-.įor Baskerville Pro, the uppercase character height measured 12 points on all three scales. The line spacing scale on two of the rulers stops at 15 points, and it was greater than that. For the Baskerville Old Face, the character height measured 13 points on all three scales. ![]() I have three different typesetting rulers, and I checked the samples with all three. I set one in Baskerville Old face, one in Baskerville Pro, and one in Baskerville Nova Pro.ĭisregarding horizontal character width and spacing, both of which would be subject to the design variations you mentioned, I measured the printed upper case character height, and the line spacing. I set it at 14 points, because if I went any larger the line spacing would have been off all my scales. I just set up a page with a 3-line Lorem Ipsum passage. More importantly, why are the font metrics so wildly divergent? I can understand some minor variations in the way tails and serifs are rendered, for example, but if something is set in a nominal 12-point font, then the tall letters should all print to 12 points in height when printed. But I don't understand why the Megafonts NOW collection includes seven (7) different Baskerville font sets. Why is that? Why should the same text have to be set 1/2 to one full point larger in one version than in another to get the same character height? I can understand that the character spacing and even the default line spacing might be different from one version to another, but shouldn't text that's set in 12-point BE 12 points in height when I check it with a standard, transparent type rule? They are all Baskerville - but the font metrics are very different. The major issue is that, for some reason, I have THREE different versions of Baskerville installed on this computer: Baskerville Old Face, Baskerville Pro, and Baskerville Nova Pro. I think I have guessed fairly accurately regarding the margins. I am now attempting to recreate an exact copy of the print layout for the book in Word. It was also formatted in Georgia as the typeface. However, it didn't preserve the page (trim) size or the margins. EPUB file from Barnes and Noble Press, and I found an on-line utility that did a credible job converting the. I was able to download the Kindle file from Amazon and the. Through a major mental malfunction on my part, I somehow managed to delete from my computer ALL the files for this book. The typeface I used for the body was some version of Baskerville. Last year I self-published a book through Amazon KDP. The Megafont NOW collection includes several different versions of Baskerville.
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