Define linespacing using a Point-Value - latex

i have to write a paper where the chair claims a font size of 12pt AND a line-spacing of 15pt (which seems not to be \onehalfspacing).
Can anyone tell me how to define the spacing using the value 15pt?
Best regards and thanks!
Philipp

You can set the line spacing exactly by altering the \baselineskip value.
\setlength{\baselineskip}{15pt}
Note that you have to use this command inside the document environment in order for it to have an effect.

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But my problem is that the second line is not aligned with first character after the bullet.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monospaced_font
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However, as mentioned in the anysize README
This package is obsolete. Use the package typearea to define your
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I'm creating graphs in pgf/tikz. When I use these in my document they are scaled, several are in minipage/subfig like environments. When this happens the font sizes are scaled with the graphics making them very small or unreadable. I've been through the manual but have so far been unsuccessful in my attempts to control this.
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One aswer given below shows how to how to use the \tikzstyle font option to specify the font size within the tikzpicture environment.
Right now I am using:
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\usepackage{scalefnt}
...
{\scalefont{0.5}
\begin{tikzpicture}
...
\end{tikzpicture}
}
I believe Mica's way deserves the rank of answer, since is not visible enough as a comment:
\begin{tikzpicture}[font=\small]
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tikzstyle{every node}=[font=\fontsize{30}{30}\selectfont]
\end{tikzpicture}
You can also use:
\usepackage{anyfontsize}
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Just adding \usepackage{anyfontsize} to the preamble is all that is required for the font scaling magic to happen.

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