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Article #1942Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript)
From: Markku Savela
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 12:18
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 12:18
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!kth.se!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!Markku.Savela From: Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript) Message-ID: <5181@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> Date: 11 Oct 90 12:18:12 GMT Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Reply-To: savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) Distribution: comp Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland Lines: 23