Hi all, I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well as vertical elements smashed up next to one another. I find myself having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize] Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would have thought \godown[0pt] was the answer, but not so, here. The font metrics seem to be right, adding up to 1000 in both directions (or a little more, actually, considering overlapping dots). -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Hi all,
I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html
Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well as vertical elements smashed up next to one another. I find myself having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize]
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
The last time I had problems with minute offsets, it was Acrobat's fault. Do you also have problems in DVI mode? Taco
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Hi all,
I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html
Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well as vertical elements smashed up next to one another. I find myself having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize]
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
The last time I had problems with minute offsets, it was Acrobat's fault. Do you also have problems in DVI mode?
Hmm. I do need to examine it in different viewers... Nope. Adobe Acrobat gives the same results as Apple's PDF implementation. I'm a bit stuck with DVI: dvipdfmx has trouble seeing the converted Mac font as a TTF font. (Once I worked through the difference in map file format...) Clearly there's a disagreement on which tables are required. Thanks, though. The negative offset is not a big problem. The only weird thing is the feature interaction I also posted about. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Hi all,
I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html
Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well as vertical elements smashed up next to one another. I find myself having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize]
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would have thought \godown[0pt] was the answer, but not so, here. The font metrics seem to be right, adding up to 1000 in both directions (or a little more, actually, considering overlapping dots).
this is tex's interlinespace mechanism popping in; play a bit with a row of things \par \nointerlinespace a row of things \par or \vbox \bgroup \offinterlinespace rows of ornaments \egroup Hans
Hans Hagen wrote:
Adam Lindsay wrote:
having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize]
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would have thought \godown[0pt] was the answer, but not so, here. The font metrics seem to be right, adding up to 1000 in both directions (or a little more, actually, considering overlapping dots).
this is tex's interlinespace mechanism popping in; play a bit with
a row of things \par \nointerlinespace a row of things \par
or
\vbox \bgroup \offinterlinespace rows of ornaments \egroup
In case anyone else is trying to follow along, those are most likely the \nointerlineskip / \offinterlineskip commands. I played with them the same night, and the results are indistinguishable from \godown[0pt]. Hmm. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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