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From: Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 12:18:12 GMT
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  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.

  This kind of automatic is sometimes useful, but programs
should have a way to disable this feature (and let me judge
whether extra spacing is really needed or not). [ I once
had two column text using Interleaf TPS 3.0 (or 4.0?) and
the result was unacceptable, because I didn't find any way
to get the lines aligned on both columns. ]

  Which brings me to the question: how do I lock linespacing
in troff (or specifically gtroff 0.5) so that it doesn't do
this automatic adjusting?
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