On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:00:01PM +0200, Hans Hagen 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? > > 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 recall trying grid a while ago but it didn't work, looks like I have to set \setuplayout[grid=force]. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
