From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Weird interline spacing
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:43:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090410114328.GE7935@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A31C46E-8259-4D14-9FCE-181FF41E18A1@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:55:46PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 09.04.2009 um 13:00 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
>
>> 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?
>
> change the line distance, you could check it with \showgrid.
>
> a distance of 4ex is enough, \setupinterlinespace[line=4ex]
Thanks for the tip, I just had the illusion that this is a new
behaviour.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 7:08 Khaled Hosny
2009-04-09 10:14 ` Hans Hagen
2009-04-09 11:00 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-04-09 11:55 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-04-10 11:43 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
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