From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24171 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Lindsay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \godown Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:23:00 +0000 Message-ID: <439582A4.50004@comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: <439487A4.9080509@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <43955A95.40907@wxs.nl> 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 1133871801 3246 80.91.229.2 (6 Dec 2005 12:23:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 06 13:23:12 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 1Ejbq0-0003Op-7T for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:22:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4DA12867; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:22:27 +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 32200-05; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:22:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D041280A; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:22:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF1DF1280A for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:22:21 +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 32201-03 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:22:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3B112803 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:22:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [194.80.37.193] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jB6CMKPY000073 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:22:20 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <43955A95.40907@wxs.nl> 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:24171 Archived-At: 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. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-