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Can i automatically change font size to get desired (66) "Characters per line" value? I do not want to change magins size or textwidth, only font size. Alternatively i'm looking for a macro which ...

My goal is to choose a "nice" font family (serif, sans serif, monospace, and "math") for my basic LaTeX template. I know the default setting (Computer Modern's family) is a very good choice. However, ...

I would like to learn more about typesetting, the accepted best practices, rules and tricks used in books, letters, resumes etc. For example, what are the usual left and right margins? Line spacing? ...

I am actually writing a master thesis in LaTeX but I didn't really like the default page style of the document style book. Therefore I tried to make my own page style and I resized manually the ...

The memoir manual mentions measuring the length of the lowercase alphabet in order to decide the numbers of characters per line. Can this be done with LaTeX?

How can i made a macro similar to \averagecharwidth of ConTeX in LaTeX, that calculates the average width of a character based on the frequency of that character into my document ? that macro is show ...

So, I generally like letting LaTeX make most of my typesetting decisions for me--- it generally knows what is typographically "good" better than I do. One area I just haven't been able to turn ...

There is a formula like that of Bringhurst for the 66 characters to calculate the height of the cage of the text? or is it just a question of personal pleasure? for examples i have found this two ...

Is it possible to write a document for A5-paper such that I can configure its margin widths and letter spacing such that a line contains at most roughly 55 letters?

I'm writing a legal brief and was hoping to use latex with lawtex . Lawtex works rather well except I'm writing a Letter Brief and need the characters in a line including spaces to be no wider than 66 ...