I tried \setupspacing[fixed] but it didn't help. To prove that the font characters really are half a cell wide I added the line \emdash \dorecurse{39}{ \emdash}. Files on drive are updated. On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 7:25 AM Stefan Nedeljkovic wrote: > Thank you very much Wolfgang! But, there is still something weird going on > with the font. I updated the files on Drive. Please see line 19, the last > word "and". It is clearly out of alignment with the gid. I tested the > alignment in MP and it should work, ie 2 characters are indeed one grid > cell (semms from the fact that IBM Plex Mono was designed from a typewriter > typeface where 12 characters are exactly 1 inch long). > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 10:52 PM Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context < > ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > >> >> >> Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context schrieb am 06.06.2022 um 22:07: >> > Wolfgang, Aditya, thank you both very much! >> > >> > I have 2 more questions: >> > >> > Observe the files here: >> > >> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18ve5_F-BKOa-TxCWmD02mhPqNXQvNyWK?usp=sharing >> > >> > 1. I'd like to shift the text area down so that the red lines >> > align with the blue lines (I think this amount is called depth). How >> > would I do that? >> >> Quick and dirty: >> >> \setuplayout >> [..., >> topspace=\dimexpr5\measured{base}+2bp+\strutdp\relax, >> ...] >> >> > 2. The font is such that exactly 2 characters fit into the grid cell, >> > but I see that towards the end of the line it gets out of sync with >> > the grid. How would I ensure that all text rendered is strictly >> > monospaced without any stretching/shrinking trickery? >> >> Change the text alignment: >> >> \setupalign[flushleft,broad] >> >> Wolfgang >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to >> the Wiki! >> >> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / >> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >> webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net >> archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> >