Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:41:26 +0100:
Also, something I just realised (thanks to Vit's example): XeTeX hasn't a clue when it comes to grid typesetting. (Has to do with the difficulty of getting the metrics from the platform fonts, I think.)
context does grid typesetting itself, there is no dependency on pdftex or so
I sort of tried to say that XeTeX's vertical measurements are very conservative (based on Apple's text system: it just doesn't want to let lines get too close!). Anyway, here are some adjusted logos that seem to save 80% of my headaches in XeTeX's vertical spacing: \beginXETEX depth adjustment of logos \let\NormalTeXLogo\TeX %save it---just in case! \def\XeTeX{X\smash[d]{\lower.5ex\hbox{\kern-.15em\mirror{E}}}\kern- .1667em\TeX} \def\TeX{T\smash[d]{\kern-.1667em\lower.5ex\hbox{E}}\kern-.125emX} \endXETEX -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-