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Article #1941Re: Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript)
From: Victor Eijkhout
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 15:23
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 15:23
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!csrd.uiuc.edu!s41.csrd.uiuc.edu!eijkhout From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript) Message-ID: <1990Oct11.152328.6593@csrd.uiuc.edu> Date: 11 Oct 90 15:23:28 GMT References: <5181@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> Sender: news@csrd.uiuc.edu (news) Distribution: comp Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development Lines: 17