Getting Office 365 Word line spacing in Typst?

Questions
1

I am struggling to set Single Line Spacing, as in the Office 365 Word in Typst.
I am currently developing a thesis template. And in the cover page, I couldn’t get the exact measures, they aren’t getting same. Official template is maked with Office 365 Word.
See GitHub Issue Comment and later.

  set text(
    top-edge: "ascender",
    bottom-edge: "descender",
  )

  // Paragraf boşluklarını ayarla. [Set paragraph spacing.]
  set par(
    leading: 0.17em,
    spacing: 0em,
  )

What I am wondering here should I use top-edge: "ascender" and bottom-edge: "descender" or leading: 0.25em for Word Single Line Spacing; leading: 0.75em for Word 1.5 Line Spacing; and leading: 1.25em for Word Double Line Spacing with default top-edge and bottom-edge value as mentioned Solution 2

So, should I keep the default top-edge and bottom-edge value so that roughly equal to Office 365 Word’s. Or should I keep the change the top-edge and bottom-edge value as I mentioned above so that with almost exactly same with Office 365 Word’s.
Which one is the best approach to all other things that affected by top-edge and bottom-edge values (equations and table etc.) had consedered.

2

leading: 0.25em not good for the Times New Roman with 12pt font size, but leading: 0.4em resulted with almost same with first solution mentioned above.

3

This guide is a good reference.

4

If your template is meant to be used with one specific font and one specific font size, then you can use any solution that gives you the perfect spacing.

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5

Yes, I am gonna use only Times New Roman font. And mostly 12pt font size. But in table.cell and figure.captions, I am gonna use 10pt.

This way, will be any problem?
Or should I specify top-edge and bottom-edge on theese special situations with proper leading value?

Note: Maybe, I could use different font for raw(code) content.

6

Are you sure that the line spacing in tables must be identical? I think the table is generally a very special case, so sometimes to fit everything inside you would have to decrease font size, or line spacing.

I never had to change the text boundaries in actual documents, nor have I saw someone use it, not that I ask everyone do they use it or not.

For raw element, you are expected to use a monospaced font. And if the lines are too long, then sometimes you are forced to decrease its font size.

show raw: set text(10pt, font: "Fira Code")
7

When I was trying to make the cover of the template in Word in Typst, I added manual spaces such as v(2.5cm). Although I left almost the same spaces as in Word, the text was not in the same position due to the line spacing.

The second reason was that in normal text, when I set the leading to 1em, there was much more space between the lines than in Word.

I gave Deepseek the documentation for top-edge and bottom-edge and leading in Typst to compare the way Word and Typst calculate line spacing. The result is that Word determines the space between the tops of both lines, while Typst by default determines the space between the bottom of the first line and the top of the bottom line. I do this with top-edge: "ascender" and bottom-edge: "decender" with leading:0.17em and get almost identical results.
But I also get a very close result with Times New Roman (12pt) with only leading:0.4em.

What I’m wondering here is that I’m trying to predict what kind of problems changing the top-edge and bottom-edge parameters may cause in the future. Since I can’t predict exactly what the pros and cons will be, I needed to consult someone who knows.

8

Typst doesn’t have line spacing, hence the Proposal: change `leading` option to `line-height` · Issue #4224 · typst/typst · GitHub. There is only between-paragraph spacing, which is still using leading.

#set par(leading: 0.75em, spacing: 0.75em)

I’m not a font expert, but if you can make everything look as you want right now, then you can just publish the template and create a new version if any problem arise in the future.

9

Thank you very much, I apologize for asking the same thing over and over again. You are right, I can’t predict everything. If there is a problem in the future, I will think about it then. Maybe in the future there may be a change like the line-height you linked to. Thank you very much again, sorry again.

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