Re: not-very-hairy hairline

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:20 PM 11/8/00 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >It might be an implementation problem, though:
>> >
>> >\def\HFLine{\hrule}
>>
>>
>> this will give you the tex default of .4pt
>>
>
>I knew that. But still, it was bigger that Plain TeX or LaTeX \hrule
>
>> >Any ideas?
>>
>> \hrule height .1pt depth .1pt
>>
>
>This is what I wanted. The odd thing is that setting depth to 0pt did not
>work, apparently (but it might be a typesetting error from me).
>
>> did you try \setuplinewidth[small] with hairlines?
>
>No, what does this do?

It sets up the line width.

Ruled things are discussed in the [beta] manuals as well as in core-rul.tex
where you can find more examples. 

Hans 
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