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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript)
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Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) writes:


>  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.

'most of the text formatters' excludes TeX!
In TeX interline space is a three-parameter phenomenon that can
be dressed to do most everything. In particular, the default
settings are so that a subscript in one line and a superscript in
the next most of the time don't alter the baseline distance.

Victor.