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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Why does 0.0001pt make such a big difference?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:38:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F3C3BC.1000600@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y498nw8a.fsf@free.fr>

On 3/24/2016 8:58 AM, Peter Münster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please compare \setupwhitespace[0.0001pt plus 2ex] with
> \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 2ex] here:
>
> \showframe
> \setuphead[section][style={\switchtobodyfont[72pt]}]
> \setupalign[height]
> \setupwhitespace[0.0001pt plus 2ex]  % desired result
> %\setupwhitespace[0pt plus 2ex]      % "plus 2ex" is unused
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{5}{\dorecurse{150}{bla }\par}
> \section{test}
> bla
> \stoptext
>
> Why is there such a difference please?

because the zero glue is discarded (in context) due to another one 
taking precedence; i'll be a bit more tolerant but i'm not sure of side 
effects

(for now using 1sp plus 2ex is quite ok)

Hans




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2016-03-24  7:58 Peter Münster
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