From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: bug? gap appears in columnset
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:22:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523A35D2.20009@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523A1F7C.8020002@sil.org>
On 9/18/2013 11:47 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
> Regarding "sane" interlinespace,
> Hans wrote,
>> ok, but then, an interlinespace is normally around 1.2 times the
>> bodyfontsize
>
> OK. That's helpful.
>
> But notice that in the following example, the interline space that
> causes the problem is in the *first* section (where htdp is 12pt and
> baselineskip is also 12pt!), while the gap shows up in the *second*
> section, whose interlinespace is 2.8ex:
Columnsets are rather special and mostly meant for magazine like
documents, where content can span columns, images are explicitly placed
on the grid, etc. For that reason columnset soperate on a rather strict
grid that gets setup based in the lineheight and although content can be
larger, the grid dictates what happens. Balancing is semi automatic and
nearly always demands some tweaks.
Using columnsets for a large document that has to flow automatically is
therefore debatable. Regular multi columns or in mkiv mixed-columns are
a better choice then.
You need to keep in mind that tex has no concept of columns so it is
faked by using a virtual page nofcolumns * text height.
Anyway, as columnsets are supposed to cooperate with grid mode, any
messing with the lineheight will interfere. Normally a document has a
consistent lineheight everywhere.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-18 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-13 20:07 Lars Huttar
2013-09-13 20:20 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-16 18:29 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-16 21:29 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-16 22:32 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-17 14:47 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-17 15:02 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-17 15:31 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-17 18:57 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-17 20:02 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-18 21:47 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-18 23:22 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-09-19 14:25 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-19 15:19 ` Hans Hagen
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