Re: no grid for single par

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:49 PM 7/26/00 +0200, Hraban wrote:
>My book has "grid=yes", but I need several paragraphs with small text
>that should use their standard linefeed. They are defined as an own
>environment (\definestartstop).
>I tried to use \startlinecorrection, but it disables the wrapping.
>
>Is it possible to typeset the whole text block, perhaps as buffer, and
>align it to the next grid line?
>
>Same with subjects/titles: The normal linespacing is too small (or too
>stretched) for other text sizes. Can I switch off the grid setting for
>all headers?

I'm cleaning up my overful mail buffer and ran into this question. 

Concerning grid, i happen to be working on more advanced figure placement
in columns and just ran some 300 page 500 fig sample with success. So,
things are improvind -) 

When in grid mode (multi columns) many commands will honor the grid. When
not, you may use: 

\startlinecorrection
  whatever content 
\stoplinecorrection

[this is also advised when embedding framed thingies, 

\startlinecorrection
\externalfigure[...]
\stoplinecorrection

This command does a rather good job on getting things visually spaced well.
[stable for years now but not that trivial]. 

You may also try: 

\snaptogrid\vbox{...} (or hbox)

If you look into core-grd.tex, you will find more details, on how to snap
to the top/bottom/center as well as corrections and so.

Did you try \showgrid already? 

Some day soon I will start doing more experiments with pdftex grid snapping
btw. So, expect more.

Hans 
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