Newsgroups: comp.text
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsl!npn
From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Subject: Re: Automatic change of linespacing is ugly (like when superscript)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 21:43:02 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.214302.9042@cbnewsl.att.com>
Summary: troff doesn't do automatic line spacing, eqn does
References: <5181@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> <1990Oct11.152328.6593@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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troff vertical line spacing is set explicitly by .vs.
There is no automatic spacing. However, subscripts and
superscripts are usually done via eqn, which does
adjust vertical spacing. "x sup down 20 j" would adjust
the superscript j lower by .2 ems, which might avoid
your original problem.