Removing vertical stretch|mimicking traditional typesetting with TEX

Practical TeX 2006

Kaveh Bazargan ; CV Radhakrishnan

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PID  :  13335

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

One of TEX’s advantages over traditional typesetting systems is the mechanism tostretch horizonal and vertical glue as needed, in order to aid paragraph buildingand pagination. But all TEX operators involved in day-to-day page make-up knowthat this inbuilt intelligence is often ‘too clever’ and frustrating for the user. TEXwill not do what you want it to do, and only over many years can operators gainthe knowledge that allows them to make just the right change to the source codein order to coerce TEX to produce the desired result.Recently we have been experimenting with removing vertical stretchability,with promising results. Our approach is to round o the height of all verticalmaterial, includingoats and displayed equations, to be an integral number ofthe leading of the main text. One advantage is that this allows true ‘grid’ setting