Jürgen wrote: > Basically, it is a question about Scylla or Charybdis. With > some tweaking > (i.e. switching off the rubber lenghts), you can even get > LaTeX to get close > to "Registerhaltigkeit", but then you'll lose the harmonic > page design and > the intelligent widow/orphan handling, for that matter.
Exactly right. If you opt for Charybidis (grid alignment), you can basically do it in LaTeX with this: \raggedbottom What that does is turn *off* vertical justification, or "feathering" of lines, so that all lines are set with the specified leading (line spacing). Otherwise, you can use this-- \flushbottom --which really means "use vertical justification (to align page bottoms automatically)." But really, that's the default anyway, made so in TeX by Donald Knuth because of his need to typeset mathematical equations, which don't lend themselves well to grid alignment. If you're typesetting a novel, however, you may *want* grid alignment rather than vertical justification. If that's your choice, you'll probably need to adjust widows and orphans manually by editing the text, tweaking a paragraph's "sloppiness," and so on. More information in my article here: http://lists.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1717621183 Note that OpenOffice.org Writer includes the option to turn grid alignment off or on for individual paragraph styles--very nice. In Writer, this feature is called "Register True," and it must be set for both the page style and the paragraph style. In addition, you should set leading as "exactly" the value you want. More information here: http://lists.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1718286586 Best wishes, Jack M. Lyon ___________________________________________________ The EDITORIUM Microsoft Word Add-Ins for Publishing Professionals http://www.editorium.com ___________________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Juergen Spitzmueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:40 AM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: Registerhaltigkeit [Was Re: selling lyx part 2] > > > Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > This strikes me as a sort of "grid alignment" based on the > > leading/linespacing of the body text. Is this commonly done? > > Yes, if this is a preference. > > > Looking through a page of my Langenscheidt dictionary I see > that lines on > > both sides are aligned, but this is maybe because the body text is > > continuous; looking at my Oxford Style Manual (happens to > be sitting next > > to the dict) I see that this is not the case. But at the > top and bottom > > of each page every thing aligns properly. This intuitively seems > > sufficient to me, hence my question as to frequency. > > Basically, it is a question about Scylla or Charybdis. With > some tweaking > (i.e. switching off the rubber lenghts), you can even get > LaTeX to get close > to "Registerhaltigkeit", but then you'll lose the harmonic > page design and > the intelligent widow/orphan handling, for that matter. > > Jürgen >
