Re: Re: spacing in heads

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 21:25 04/09/2003 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Peter Rolf <peter.rolf@arcor.de> writes:
>
>Hello Peter,
>
>thanks for the answer, I was actually using the visual debugger, but I
>wasn't able to tell what the small sqare was for.
>
>So one other question:
>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>\showmakeup
>\starttext
>\setuphead[section][textcommand=\framed,before=]
>\hbox{\framed[width=5cm,height=5cm,align={middle,high},offset=0pt]{%
>offset=0pt hp\section{Hello}
>         why is there so much space above the word hello??}
>\framed[width=5cm,height=5cm,align={middle,high},offset=none]{%
>offset=none hp\section{Hello}
>         why is there so much space above the word hello??}}
>\stoptext
>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>what is the difference between offset=0pt and offset=none? I thought
>that it would only insert a strut, but then again I thought that a
>strut has the height and the depth of the font. This is clearly not
>the case here, since the f (or h) should be the highest char and p pretty
>deep. But compared to the right example there is some space above the
>f and below the p.


in your example, turn of showmakeup and say \showstruts

\starttext \showstruts

\framed[offset=0pt]{test}
\framed[offset=none]{test}
\framed[offset=overlay]{test}

\stoptext
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