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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Line height for smaller fonts. (Migrating from LaTeX to ConTeXt:) forcing new line and new page
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:05:41 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1010041304090.4488@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vj17cafjtpjj8f@lpr>

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On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:

> Hello,
>
> let's have the following example:
>
> ---
> \starttext
>
>   \tt
>   \input tufte
>
>  \hairline

\switchtobodyfont[small]

or \tfx\setupinterlinespace (untested)

>   \tfx
>   \input tufte
>
>  \hairline
>
>   \tfxx
>   \input tufte
>
> \stoptext
> ---
>
> When I look at the result, I see the smaller font the bigger "gap" between 
> lines (or this may be taken as "line height" relative to letter height).
>
> As I would need to type many datafiles, it's important for me to reduce line 
> height, even if readability of the text becomes a bit worse.
>
> Is it possible to achieve this anyhow?
>
> Another question:
>
> How to force new line and new page to start?
>
> - LaTeX provides \newline, \newpage\ linebreak and \pagebreak commands - see 
> e.g. http://www.personal.ceu.hu/tex/breaking.htm.

\newline = \crlf
\linebreak = \blank (not completely sure as I do not remember what 
linebreak does)

\newpage = \page

Aditya

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-04 16:13 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2010-10-04 16:44 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-04 17:05 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]

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