From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: wrong vertical spacing in latest beta
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:16:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <553026BB.50306@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55301DE0.4080704@wxs.nl>
On 04/16/2015 10:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 4/16/2015 10:20 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> On 04/16/2015 09:51 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> [...]
>> I have seen strut in the past, but I’m afraid that I don’t know what it
>> may be or what I can use it for (besides your sample).
>
> tex has no built-in concept of lineheight and depth only of distance
>
> so, if you want consistency you need to make sure the first line has
> height and the last line depth
>
> for normal running text this goes ok (thanks to baselineskip being the
> sum of wanted height and depth)
>
> but ... as soon as you start boxing you need to make sure you enforce
> the proper ht and dp is needed
>
> \begstrut ... \endstrut
>
> can be used for that
>
> most mechanisnm in context deal with this themselves (for instance
> framed and tables .. tables would look horrible otherwise)
>
> (try \showstruts before \starttext so see where \struts are used)
Many thanks for your explanation, Hans.
Pablo
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2015-04-16 16:50 Pablo Rodriguez
2015-04-16 19:51 ` Hans Hagen
2015-04-16 20:20 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-04-16 20:38 ` Hans Hagen
2015-04-16 21:16 ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
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