Re: 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:00:01PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 13-5-2010 4:32, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 04:16:12PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>On 13-5-2010 3:42, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >>
> >>>\startyoumayignorethis
> >>>The only thing that really bothers me are so much different vertical
> >>>differences which show up in almost every document I ever write. MKIV
> >>>consistently takes more vertical space, so no matter what document I
> >>>try to recompile, it always ends up with more pages (and some weird
> >>>page breaks) when processing it with MKIV.
> >>
> >>\startcantresistmode
> >>
> >>the lineheight relates to the ex height and as in mkiv we don't have
> >>the tfm limitations (those 16 values of ht dp) we have slightly
> >>different spacing
> >
> >Something I find very annoying is variable interline spacing, if I've,
> >for example, a line with some Arabic words vocalized I get some times
> >too much white space above it that it almost looks like an empty line.
> >It makes the page look like crap. Is there a way to force fixed
> >interline spacing?
> 
> turn turn grid on .. but even then, we need some nice heuristic for
> determing the right ht/dp ratio for arabic (can be set up)

I recall trying grid a while ago but it didn't work, looks like I have
to set \setuplayout[grid=force].

Regards,
 Khaled

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