Re: Linespacing in TOC

["Jan Tosovsky" <j.tosovsky@email.cz>]

On 2013-11-23 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 11/23/2013 12:16 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > On 2013-11-23 Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >> On 2013-11-22 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>> On 11/22/2013 9:44 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >>>> On 2013-11-20 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>>>> On 11/19/2013 11:48 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'd like to tweak a default TOC linespacing...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> \title{Table of Contents}
> >>>>>
> >>>>> \start
> >>>>>        \setupinterlinespace[line=0.8ex]
> >>>>>        \placecontent
> >>>>> \stop
> >>>>
> >>>> But as I found, any value below 2.8ex causes interline
> >>>> inconsistencies when
> >>>> special cases appears, see the extreme below:
> >>>>
> >>>> \starttext
> >>>> \start
> >>>> \setupinterlinespace[line=1.0ex]
> >>>> \placecontent
> >>>> \stop
> >>>> \chapter{aaaaaaaa}. % line without descenders
> >>>> \chapter{pppppppp}. % line with descenders
> >>>> \chapter{ŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠ}. % the result is an inconsistent baseline
> >>>> \stoptext
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any remedy for this? Can I fix the baseline distance
> >>>> somehow?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> \definegridsnapping[crap] [fit,0.2]
> >>> \setuplayout[grid=crap]
> >>
> >> This helps! But... it breaks something else :-(
> >
> > I've finally found an acceptable solution.
> >
> > During my tests I found a crucial difference between:
> >
> > \setupinterlinespace[line=2.0ex]
> >
> > and
> >
> > \setupinterlinespace[0.25]
> >
> > The latter sets the baseline distance correctly even without that
> > problematic snapping to the grid!
> >
> >> All lines in my book have a certain (default) linespacing.
> >> TOC entries are rendered (by default) using bigger linespacing.
> >
> > Btw, is there any option to override a default (huge) TOC
> linespacing? I
> > still consider my solution rather a hack.
> 
> just set 'before' and 'after'

Ok. I haven't realize that.

> normally linespacing in the toc is the same as in the rest of the
> document unless one has assigned to before/after

This example shows different behaviour:

\showgrid
\starttext
\start
\placecontent
\stop
\chapter{aaaaaaaa}Foo

Bar
\chapter{pppppppp}.
\chapter{ŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠ}.
\stoptext

On my computer the TOC linespacing is almost twice as big as that in the
paragraph.

Jan

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