Re: Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript)

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From: nils-peter.nelson
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 21:43

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troff vertical line spacing is set explicitly by .vs.
There is no automatic spacing. However, subscripts and
superscripts are usually done via eqn, which does
adjust vertical spacing. "x sup down 20 j" would adjust
the superscript j lower by .2 ems, which might avoid
your original problem.

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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Subject: Re: Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript)
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 21:43:02 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.214302.9042@cbnewsl.att.com>
Summary: troff doesn't do automatic line spacing, eqn does
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