[NTG-context] Re: Text depth

[NTG-context] Re: Text depth

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 23.06.25 um 11:19 schrieb John Was:
> Hello
> 
> For some reason I'm having a lot of trouble getting the page to include 
> precisely 40 lines of text (10.5 Baskerville with an interline depth of 
> 12 points).  On an experimental file with 6 full-depth pages and no 
> footnotes, I find that the first three have 39 lines and the second 
> three have the desired 40 lines.  You will see from the code below that 
> I have been tinkering a lot, but it ought to be a simple matter!  Can 
> someone let me know what I should be doing?
> 
> Here's the code (and I have to desert my desk now till this afternoon so 
> am not in a hurry for an answer!):

Use

EITHER

> height=522.6275pt,

OR

> %lines=40%this messes up position on the A4 page


As I said, you’re using too many settings, some interfere.

And if you want a fixed number of lines, grid setting makes sense. 
(Hint: \showgrid)

Hraban
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