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+<h3 class="section" id="Manipulating-Type-Size-and-Vertical-Spacing-1">5.20 Manipulating Type Size and Vertical Spacing</h3>
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+<p>These concepts were introduced in <a class="ref" href="Page-Geometry.html">Page Geometry</a>. The height of a
+font&rsquo;s tallest glyph is one em, which is equal to the type size in
+points.<a class="footnote" id="DOCF82" href="groff.html_fot.html#FOOT82"><sup>82</sup></a> A vertical spacing of less than 120% of
+the type size can make a document hard to read. Larger proportions can
+be useful to spread the text for annotations or proofreader&rsquo;s marks. By
+default, GNU <code class="code">troff</code> uses 10&nbsp;point type on 12&nbsp;point
+spacing.
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+Typographers call the difference between type size and vertical spacing
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