not-very-hairy hairline

not-very-hairy hairline

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Hello, another strange behaviour: the \hairline gives a line actually quite
thick. The thickness is excessive even when I use the low-level commands

\hrule height.1pt

At first I suspected it was pdftex fault, since I always used tex with my
latex files, and the rules where thin. But it is not.

The thickness is real, and not viewer-dependent: I can plainly see it in the
DVI, PDF and PS outputs, so ...

It might be an implementation problem, though:

\def\HFLine{\hrule}
\setupheader[style=slanted,state=start,after=\HFLine]

gives a line separating the header from the the text (which is what I want),
but the line has that strange thickness.

Any ideas?

Giuseppe Bilotta

Re: not-very-hairy hairline

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:03 PM 11/5/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hello, another strange behaviour: the \hairline gives a line actually quite
>thick. The thickness is excessive even when I use the low-level commands
>
>\hrule height.1pt
>
>At first I suspected it was pdftex fault, since I always used tex with my
>latex files, and the rules where thin. But it is not.
>
>The thickness is real, and not viewer-dependent: I can plainly see it in the
>DVI, PDF and PS outputs, so ...
>
>It might be an implementation problem, though:
>
>\def\HFLine{\hrule}

this will give you the tex default of .4pt 

>\setupheader[style=slanted,state=start,after=\HFLine]
>
>gives a line separating the header from the the text (which is what I want),
>but the line has that strange thickness.
>
>Any ideas?

\hrule height .1pt depth .1pt 

did you try \setuplinewidth[small] with hairlines? 

Hans
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Re: not-very-hairy hairline

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

> At 11:03 PM 11/5/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> >Hello, another strange behaviour: the \hairline gives a line actually
quite
> >thick. The thickness is excessive even when I use the low-level commands
> >
> >\hrule height.1pt
> >
> >
> >It might be an implementation problem, though:
> >
> >\def\HFLine{\hrule}
>
>
> this will give you the tex default of .4pt
>

I knew that. But still, it was bigger that Plain TeX or LaTeX \hrule

> >Any ideas?
>
> \hrule height .1pt depth .1pt
>

This is what I wanted. The odd thing is that setting depth to 0pt did not
work, apparently (but it might be a typesetting error from me).

> did you try \setuplinewidth[small] with hairlines?

No, what does this do?

Giuseppe Bilotta

Re: not-very-hairy hairline

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:20 PM 11/8/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> At 11:03 PM 11/5/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> >Hello, another strange behaviour: the \hairline gives a line actually
>quite
>> >thick. The thickness is excessive even when I use the low-level commands
>> >
>> >\hrule height.1pt
>> >
>> >
>> >It might be an implementation problem, though:
>> >
>> >\def\HFLine{\hrule}
>>
>>
>> this will give you the tex default of .4pt
>>
>
>I knew that. But still, it was bigger that Plain TeX or LaTeX \hrule
>
>> >Any ideas?
>>
>> \hrule height .1pt depth .1pt
>>
>
>This is what I wanted. The odd thing is that setting depth to 0pt did not
>work, apparently (but it might be a typesetting error from me).
>
>> did you try \setuplinewidth[small] with hairlines?
>
>No, what does this do?

It sets up the line width.

Ruled things are discussed in the [beta] manuals as well as in core-rul.tex
where you can find more examples. 

Hans 
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