On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 04.11.2008 um 21:20 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: > >> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it normal that output from MkII and MkIV are different in terms of >>> page breaks? >> >> Yes. In MKII the interline space is hard coded. MKIV gets the >> interline >> space from the font. So, you will get different page breaks. I >> experienced >> around 2-5 pages difference in a 100 page document. > > The interlinespace in MkII and MkIV is the same and both use a distance > of 2.8ex between the lines.
Yes, but ex means different dimensions in pdftex and luatex. For example \starttext 1ex = \the\dimexpr1ex\relax \crlf 2.8ex = \the\dimexpr2.8ex\relax \stoptext gives in MKII 1ex = 5.16667pt 2.8ex = 14.46669pt and in MKIV gives 1ex = 5.172pt 2.8ex = 14.4816pt The reason is that what ex means is hardcoded in MKII but MKIV gets this info from the font. For example, if I use palatino at 12pt, the result in MKII does not change, but MKIV gives 1ex = 5.388pt 2.8ex = 15.08641pt So, depending on the font, MKII and MKIV can have considerably different lines per page. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
