Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) (10/11/90)
This is minor nit picking on my behalf, but I don't understand why most of the text formatters automaticly adjust the spacing for single lines according to the content of line? This gets especially ugly if you have a single superscript or subscript on the line, then otherwise even flow of lines is interrupted by ugly large gap. This kind of automatic is sometimes useful, but programs should have a way to disable this feature (and let me judge whether extra spacing is really needed or not). [ I once had two column text using Interleaf TPS 3.0 (or 4.0?) and the result was unacceptable, because I didn't find any way to get the lines aligned on both columns. ] Which brings me to the question: how do I lock linespacing in troff (or specifically gtroff 0.5) so that it doesn't do this automatic adjusting? -- Markku Savela | savela@tel.vtt.fi Technical Research Centre of Finland | Telecommunications Laboratory | Markku.Savela@vtt.fi Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland | savela%vtttel@router.funet.fi
Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) (10/11/90)
In article <5181@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) writes: >in troff (or specifically gtroff 0.5) so that it doesn't do >this automatic adjusting? Oops.. :-) Obviously this may be a feature of the macro package. So, how is it with "me" macroes? (in my case I don't want footnote reference numbers to affect the line spacing). -- Markku Savela | savela@tel.vtt.fi Technical Research Centre of Finland | Telecommunications Laboratory | Markku.Savela@vtt.fi Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland | savela%vtttel@router.funet.fi
eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (10/11/90)
Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) writes: > This is minor nit picking on my behalf, but I don't understand >why most of the text formatters automaticly adjust the spacing >for single lines according to the content of line? This gets >especially ugly if you have a single superscript or subscript >on the line, then otherwise even flow of lines is interrupted >by ugly large gap. 'most of the text formatters' excludes TeX! In TeX interline space is a three-parameter phenomenon that can be dressed to do most everything. In particular, the default settings are so that a subscript in one line and a superscript in the next most of the time don't alter the baseline distance. Victor.
npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) (10/16/90)
troff vertical line spacing is set explicitly by .vs. There is no automatic spacing. However, subscripts and superscripts are usually done via eqn, which does adjust vertical spacing. "x sup down 20 j" would adjust the superscript j lower by .2 ems, which might avoid your original problem.