Subject: Re: flexible line-spacing? From: Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:52:52 +0100 |
> Hi! > > When looking at the DSSSL specs, I discovered something which I don't think > could have been forgotten, so I wonder if anyone has a solution: > > If I want to have a document formatted with the pages on one spread being > balanced (i.e. the content of the page shall fill exactly the page height > less the top and bottom margins, which is normally done by putting the > placement path of the last text line on the bottom margin itself), this can > be achieved by having the "space-before" or "space-after" of a paragraph > being of type "display-space" with a minimum and a maximum length spec. This > works fine if there is enough "stretchability" in these specs. > > Sometimes though the stretachbility is not enough, or there is no space > between paragraphs at all (e.g. if a long paragraph fills a page > completely). Normal typesetting would then resort to changing the > line-spacing a little bit. But how can this be achieved in DSSSL? I did not > find any characteristic to have such a flexible line-spacing generated? > > Has this simply been forgotten in the specs, or am I missing something? > I think the justify-spread? characteristic of the page-sequence FO is intended to achieve this. Unfortunately, page-sequences remained unimplemented so far. -- Matthias Clasen, Tel. 0761/203-5606 Email: clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mathematisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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