Re: 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

["Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

On Thu, 13 May 2010 10:00:01 -0500, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 13-5-2010 4:32, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 04:16:12PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> On 13-5-2010 3:42, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>
>>>> \startyoumayignorethis
>>>> The only thing that really bothers me are so much different vertical
>>>> differences which show up in almost every document I ever write. MKIV
>>>> consistently takes more vertical space, so no matter what document I
>>>> try to recompile, it always ends up with more pages (and some weird
>>>> page breaks) when processing it with MKIV.
>>>
>>> \startcantresistmode
>>>
>>> the lineheight relates to the ex height and as in mkiv we don't have
>>> the tfm limitations (those 16 values of ht dp) we have slightly
>>> different spacing
>>
>> Something I find very annoying is variable interline spacing, if I've,
>> for example, a line with some Arabic words vocalized I get some times
>> too much white space above it that it almost looks like an empty line.
>> It makes the page look like crap. Is there a way to force fixed
>> interline spacing?

Can you give an example?

> turn turn grid on .. but even then, we need some nice heuristic for  
> determing the right ht/dp ratio for arabic (can be set up)

I have some nice texts that illustrate a standard balance, but I'd like to  
see what Khaled has in mind exactly before I comment further...

Peace
Idris
-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

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