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I have good news for you. I've built a theme mechanism into Asciidoctor PDF that controls all of the font metrics and much of the spacings. (Though, it's not yet documented).

You can see the default theme definition here:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/blob/master/data/themes/default-theme.yml

To provide your own theme, simply copy that file (or start a new one), tweak it and pass it to the pdf-style attribute:

$ asciidoctor-pdf -a pdf-style=/path/to/custom-theme.yml

The file must end in -theme.yml for now.

Here's how you control the master font size and line spacing in particular:

base:
  font_size: 9
  line_height_length: 10

Note that the font size is roughly equivalent to the "x-height" of the font. Font metrics are a bit different in the PDF environment and I'll need to thoroughly document how to think about them. I'm still sorting it out myself. Of course, you can just play around with the numbers until you get the output you want. The sizes can be decimal values (e.g., 9.45).

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Your good news is always very good!
I will check it out tomorrow.

On Sep 8, 2014, at 12:02 AM, Dan Allen [email protected] wrote:

I have good news for you. I've built a theme mechanism into Asciidoctor PDF that controls all of the font metrics and much of the spacings. (Though, it's not yet documented).

You can see the default theme definition here:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/blob/master/data/themes/default-theme.yml

To provide your own theme, simply copy that file (or start a new one), tweak it and pass it to the pdf-style attribute:

$ asciidoctor-pdf -a pdf-style=/path/to/custom-theme.yml
The file must end in -theme.yml for now.

Here's how you control the master font size and line spacing in particular:

base:
font_size: 9
line_height_length: 10
Note that the font size is roughly equivalent to the "x-height" of the font. Font metrics are a bit different in the PDF environment and I'll need to thoroughly document how to think about them. I'm still sorting it out myself. Of course, you can just play around with the numbers until you get the output you want. The sizes can be decimal values (e.g., 9.45).

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For more information, see https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/blob/master/docs/theming-guide.adoc.

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