From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: strutheight and (german) umlauts
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:37:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F36230.9010109@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F3552C.8090802@gmx.net>
Peter Rolf wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Peter Rolf wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just run into the problem, that \strutheight is lower than the height
>>> of some german umlauts (���).
>>>
>>> % -----
>>> \setupoutput[pdftex]
>>> \mainlanguage[german]
>>>
>>> \setupcolors[state=start]
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> \showstruts
>>>
>>> \def\FOO#1{\framed[frame=off,background=color,backgroundcolor=green]{#1\strut}}
>>>
>>> \hbox{\FOO{AOU}\FOO{���}}
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>> % -----
>>>
>>> Is this intended (and if so, why)?
>>>
>>> I need this for several boxes with a mp overlay as background and
>>> centered text. The height of the boxes is equal, so all text should be
>>> placed on the same baseline. Currently I box the text and set the height
>>> manually to \strutheight. But a more "global" solution would be prefered.
>>> Should I define my own gfx strut or just add one of those umlauts to
>>> \setfontstrut or ...? Dunno what is the best solution.
>>>
>>>
>> (1) increase the lineheight (2.8ex by default)
>> (2) change the height/depth ration (.72/.28 by default)
>>
>> it all depends on the font
>>
>>
> I know not much about this stuff, so thanks for the helpful answer.
>
the .72/.28 and 2.8ex work quite wel for most fonts as well as math; they originate in the inrstex macro package that we used long ago (just before we started writing context, which for some time used snippets of the rather modular inrstex)
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 15:03 Peter Rolf
2006-08-28 19:43 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-28 20:42 ` Peter Rolf
2006-08-28 21:37 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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