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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu>,
	Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 10+ reasons why I still use MKII
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BEC13F1.9080106@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100513143243.GB3884@khaled-laptop>

On 13-5-2010 4:32, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 04:16:12PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 13-5-2010 3:42, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>> \startyoumayignorethis
>>> The only thing that really bothers me are so much different vertical
>>> differences which show up in almost every document I ever write. MKIV
>>> consistently takes more vertical space, so no matter what document I
>>> try to recompile, it always ends up with more pages (and some weird
>>> page breaks) when processing it with MKIV.
>>
>> \startcantresistmode
>>
>> the lineheight relates to the ex height and as in mkiv we don't have
>> the tfm limitations (those 16 values of ht dp) we have slightly
>> different spacing
>
> Something I find very annoying is variable interline spacing, if I've,
> for example, a line with some Arabic words vocalized I get some times
> too much white space above it that it almost looks like an empty line.
> It makes the page look like crap. Is there a way to force fixed
> interline spacing?

turn turn grid on .. but even then, we need some nice heuristic for 
determing the right ht/dp ratio for arabic (can be set up)

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-13 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-12 13:48 Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-12 14:44 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-05-12 15:15 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-13 13:42   ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-13 13:55     ` luigi scarso
2010-05-13 14:16     ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-13 14:32       ` Khaled Hosny
2010-05-13 15:00         ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-05-13 17:08           ` Khaled Hosny
2010-05-13 21:09             ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 13:52               ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-05-13 18:46           ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس  سماوي حامد
2010-05-13 20:06             ` Khaled Hosny
2010-05-13 19:31               ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس  سماوي حامد
2010-05-13 21:05                 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-13 20:25               ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-13 21:26                 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-05-13 21:35                   ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 12:37                     ` Khaled Hosny
2010-05-14 12:54                       ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14 13:10                         ` Khaled Hosny
2010-05-14 14:52                       ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد
2010-05-13 18:34       ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-13 21:49         ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-14  5:23     ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-05-12 15:20 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-05-12 15:23   ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-05-12 15:41     ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-05-12 15:45       ` Taco Hoekwater

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