So, you can (and should) hand off your title pages to Word so that it can take the formatting and layout minutiae off your plate. If you use the Student Supplement for The SBL Handbook of Style or something similar, Word can handle title pages quite well. 2 (I’ll call this a “font point” since it’s tied to the font size you actually set in Word.) Font Points and Type Points on a Title Page A Title Page as an Example So not all fonts are created equal in terms of what a “point” means for a single-spaced line in that particular font. Twelve-point SBL BibLit text occupies noticeably more vertical space.Twelve-point Arial text occupies noticeably more horizontal space.(For clarity from here, I’ll call this a “type point.”)īut, by comparison with 12-point Times New Roman text, In theory, one point is equal to 1/72 of an inch. So if you need to space content precisely on a page, you need to recognize that font points aren’t type points. When you select a font in Word, you select its size in a unit called “points.” 1īut just like the font size, the font face also affects the visual size of lines and type on the page.
