From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: question about linespace adjustment
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:51:55 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1309241050570.27893@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5241A380.8050608@sil.org>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm working through the reference manual trying to understand how things
> work in regard to fonts. I'll be submitting clarifications and
> elaborations to the manual in an attempt to help other non-experts to
> grasp the design of ConTeXt.
>
> There's a point that's confusing to me in section 5.5, Line spacing. On
> page 108 of the manual it says
> "Linespacing alters when a new bodyfont is used or when linespacing is
> defined explicitly by \setupinterlinespace (which is explained later)"
>
> But on the next page it says,
> "When you make a font switch the linespacing is adapted when you give
> the command \setupinterlinespace without any setup parameters and also
> when you add the key reset, for example..."
>
> So here's why I'm confused. When you change fonts, (a) does linespacing
> get changed automatically, or (b) do you have to say
> \setupinterlinespace? If (a), then why does the second quote above seem
> to say you need \setupinterlinespace to make it happen? If (b), then
> isn't the first quote above inaccurate?
>
> Is there a distinction being drawn here between "when a new bodyfont is
> used" and "when you make a font switch", or are those just variant
> phrasings for what is intended to mean the same thing?
Contrast
{\switchtobodyfont[14pt] \input ward \endgraf}
with
{\tfc \input ward \endgraf}
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 14:36 Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 14:51 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-09-24 16:01 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 17:45 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 18:18 ` luigi scarso
2013-09-24 21:07 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 21:25 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-25 19:54 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-25 21:00 ` luigi scarso
2013-09-25 21:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-25 21:45 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-26 19:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-27 15:57 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-30 20:22 ` Lars Huttar
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