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Interlinear space

  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Interlinear space</title>
  <style type="text/css">
    body {
      font-size: 12px;
    }
    h1 { 
      font: Bold 1em/1.5em Georgia, serif;
      margin: 2em 0 0 0;
      padding: 0;
    }  
    p {
      margin: 0;
      width: 33em;
    }
    .with-space {
      line-height: 1.5em;
    }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Default (line-height unspecified)</h1>
  <p>this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. 
  this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. 
  this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. 
  this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. </p>
  <h1>line-height: 1.5em</h1>
  <p class="with-space">
  this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. 
  this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. 
  this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. 
  this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. </p>
</body>
</html>

   
  








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