From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/58759 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: 10+ reasons why I still use MKII Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4BEC13F1.9080106@wxs.nl> References: <4BEAC60C.8070900@wxs.nl> <4BEC09AC.8000403@wxs.nl> <20100513143243.GB3884@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273762846 7925 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2010 15:00:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Idris Samawi Hamid , Mojca Miklavec To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 13 17:00:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCZu0-0002nt-3d for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7936C9B10; Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id z06XYGfmKD7D; Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A410C9AF9; Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC49C9AF9 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Vs71Srj0n2Gf for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (sc-162.r-213-125-29.schoolconnect.nu [213.125.29.162]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672F4C9AD9 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-9 (SurgeMail 4.3e) with ESMTP id 325-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <20100513143243.GB3884@khaled-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:58759 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________