Before you go too crazy, I’m not talking about fixing the font size here–rather, I just want each character to have a perfect square of space around them vertically and horizontally.
I’ve looked through the manuals and the forum, and think I have the correct solution, but when I use the font in Word it displays incorrectly (even when I Shift+Enter to avoid paragraph breaks).
I have the following in Format → Settings → Metrics:
Typo Ascender 1024 (is there a reason the default is 2048? should I change this?)
Typo Descender 0
Typo Line Gap 0
Win Ascent 1024
Win Descent 0
Ascender 1024
Descender 0
Line Gap 1024
Then I go to Tools → Auto Metrics and set the Advance Width for all to 1024 (except the first 3 characters?).
This seems to work well for the fixed width, but it still leaves a gap between lines in Word (but not in Font → Test).
Thanks, yes, you’re right about the default for em being 2048. Is that a good standard that I should be using - will my fonts all be 1/2 as large as others if I leave it at 1024?
I tried Line Gap = 0, and it did decrease the size of the space between lines, but there is still a space there.
However, I also opened up WordPad, and with Line Gap = 0, there is no space at all between lines there, so I suspect the problem is with Word settings rather than anything else.
Funits/em is a setting like DPI — higher values allow finer details that would only be visible at large sizes. The default of 2048 is adequate for most fonts. A value of 1024 would also work well. A few fonts use 4096 — I don’t recall ever coming across any using 8192 funits/em. Fonts made for the Mac often have a value of 1,000 funits/em. A binary multiple of 2 is faster for the Windows rasteriser to work with.
Word uses a default paragraph spacing of 10 points after each paragraph, so I guess that’s your problem in Word.