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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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