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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
No, don't use line-height except for real websites, and even there there are minefields.

Use font sizes, margins and padding. The font face and font size will set a default relative line-spacing.

Headings: biggest font-size, different face (often bold)
Quotes: Slightly bigger font and/or different face
body paragraphs: 1em = 12pt
footnotes: slightly smaller, usually a sans-serif face

EDIT:
A paragraph after chapter start, heading or dinkus will be additional stlyes.
A verse / lyric / poem / hymn etc (maybe a quote) will use three or five paragraph styles and each line is a paragraph:

First paragraph at entire start (optional for extra space)
First paragraph at start of a verse
Body of verse
Last paragraph of a verse
Last paragraph at entire end (optional, for extra space)
1em also equals 16px. And don't make any of the fonts other then the copyright page and smallcaps smaller then 1em.
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