On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:14:28PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> In the attached file, loading the font with \setupbodyfont gives
>> narrower interline spacing than with font (you have to comment out the
>> \setupbodyfont line to see this), I'm not sure if this is normal, but
>> the first case gives different interline spaces from line to line. I
>> tested it with two different fonts.
>
> \font does nothing with interlinespace at all
>
> \setupbodyfont does set the interlinespace as defined by the bodyfont  
> environment (2.8 ex by default with a 72:28 ht/dp ratio)

OK, however that was a side issue, my real problem is the variable
interline spacing, see the attached file; the first interline space is
considerably larger than the others, this seems to be due to the
diacritics on the second line. Shouldn't the interline space to be fixed
in all lines?

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer