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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Escapement values???
Message-ID: <1991May7.234059.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 06:40:59 GMT
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In article <3E4729D620005637@Post-Office.UH.EDU>, NORM@IONAACAD.BITNET (Norman Walsh) writes:
> Greetings,
> Looking into the format of the PK and GF files, I understand most of
> the parameters.  However, the horizontal and (in the long preamble
> format) vertical escapement values mystify me.  What are they?  Who
> uses them?

The escapement is how much the reference point is moved when the
character is typeset. Normally the vertical escapement is zero.

-dh

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