I tried=C2=A0\setupspacing[fixed] but it didn't help. = To prove that the font characters really are half a cell wide I added the l= ine=C2=A0\emdash \dorecurse{39}{ \emdash}. Files on drive are updated.

On Tu= e, Jun 7, 2022 at 7:25 AM Stefan Nedeljkovic <tsar.srb@gmail.com> 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 c= learly out of alignment with the gid. I tested the alignment in MP and it s= hould work, ie 2 characters are indeed one grid cell (semms from the fact t= hat IBM Plex Mono was designed from a typewriter typeface where 12 characte= rs are exactly 1 inch long).

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 10:52 PM Wolfgang Schu= ster 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://d= rive.google.com/drive/folders/18ve5_F-BKOa-TxCWmD02mhPqNXQvNyWK?usp=3Dshari= ng
>
> 1. I'd like to shift the text area down so that the red lines
> align=C2=A0with the blue=C2=A0lines (I think this amount is called dep= th). How
> would I do that?

Quick and dirty:

\setuplayout
=C2=A0=C2=A0 [...,
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 topspace=3D\dimexpr5\measured{base}+2bp+\strutdp\relax,<= br> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 ...]

> 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

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