On 8.03.05, Helge Hafting wrote: > Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > >Juergen Spitzmueller writes: > > > After seeing the example, I wonder why someone would want this > "registerhaltigkeit" in the general case. (Sure, there might be special > cases I can't think of.) > > In a book, you read one page at a time, one column at a time. > Therefore, it doesn't matter if the adjacent column/page doesn't > line up.
Still, you will glance the whole page. In a two column mode having the lines align over the columns add to this "undeclarable" better overall impression of professional typesetting. The second case, thin paper in a double sided document was already mentioned in another answer. > Note that the lines will line up, if you have two pages with text only. > Headings, figures/tables, and paragraph breaks using skips ruins this. > You can improve on this by making sure the extra space set aside for a > heading (or skip or figure) is an exact multiple of the line height. Another problem are sub- and superscripts -- maybe this is the reason Donald K. did not implement Registerhaltigkeit... > So, you should be able to get much better "registerhaltigheit" with a > latex class written with this in mind. You need someone good at > typography (and latex) to make the class though, simply setting some > non-stretchable numbers that match the line height will likely be bad > for a lot of other, more important typographical reasons. Rather than a class, I would like to see a registerhaltig.sty package, that could be used with all sorts of classes. G�nter -- G.Milde web.de
