Don’t have spaces between paragraphs in your main body text.Make sure your main text is set to “justified”, and not “flush left.” While it is currently better to set text flush-left on the web, books look better justified and are nearly always set that way.Configure Word’s typesettingĪ couple of points about paragraph formatting: You may need to reiterate a few times until you get a matching set of numbers that fit well on your page and do not need too much rounding. This will give you your optimal line height in points. After rounding this font size to within half a point, multiply it by 1.618 again.This gives you an optimal font size, in points, for your main text. Take the square root of this number and divide by 1.618 (the golden ratio).This tells you how many “points” there are in one line of text. Take the width of your text block in inches and multiply by 72.See this article about golden ratio typography for more information.
The method I’m going to give you here is based on one possible set of proportions between font size, line height, and line width. Next, you want to find a matching set of values for your final font size, line height, and line width. Your page size and maximum margins will generally determine roughly how wide your text block can be.
If you are self-publishing with a service like Lulu or CreateSpace, you select the size of your book, and this will give you a set of constraints (margins, etc.) to start with. You can actually get some good-quality typesetting from Microsoft Word if you just change a few options. Formatting and Typesetting your Book in MS Word
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