From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24164 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \godown Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:32:05 +0100 Message-ID: <43955A95.40907@wxs.nl> References: <439487A4.9080509@comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133861867 5160 80.91.229.2 (6 Dec 2005 09:37:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:37:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 06 10:37:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjZEZ-0003Y0-PP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:35:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B46412871; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:35:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30186-09; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:35:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286531285E; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:32:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F05B1285E for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:32:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30186-01-2 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:32:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D711712780 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:32:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 6564 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:37:50 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <439487A4.9080509@comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24164 Archived-At: Adam Lindsay wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: > http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html > > Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well > as vertical elements smashed up next to one another. I find myself > having to adjust for little gaps with: > \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize] > > Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would have thought \godown[0pt] > was the answer, but not so, here. The font metrics seem to be right, > adding up to 1000 in both directions (or a little more, actually, > considering overlapping dots). this is tex's interlinespace mechanism popping in; play a bit with a row of things \par \nointerlinespace a row of things \par or \vbox \bgroup \offinterlinespace rows of ornaments \egroup Hans