From: Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: \godown
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:23:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <439582A4.50004@comp.lancs.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43955A95.40907@wxs.nl>
Hans Hagen wrote:
> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>
>> 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
In case anyone else is trying to follow along, those are most likely the
\nointerlineskip / \offinterlineskip commands. I played with them the
same night, and the results are indistinguishable from \godown[0pt].
Hmm.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-05 18:32 \godown Adam Lindsay
2005-12-06 9:29 ` \godown Taco Hoekwater
2005-12-06 12:29 ` \godown Adam Lindsay
2005-12-06 9:32 ` \godown Hans Hagen
2005-12-06 12:23 ` Adam Lindsay [this message]
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