Dear all,
By way of further definition and clarification of the issue: back in the world
of LaTeX, I was kindly given the following code on CTT by Donald Arseneau to
produce the desired effect. Mind you, it was only meant to work with a
paragraph if the entire paragraph was on one page; it wouldn't work if split
across pages:
%%% Donald Arseneau’s Gridblock Environment %%%
% For placing paragraphs into a box, and that box then
% being placed on a “grid” of the baselineskip. This ensures
% that following paragraphs are also on the grid.
\makeatletter
\...@ifundefined{@tempdimc}{\newdim...@tempdimc}{}
\newenvironment{gridblock}{\par
\setb...@tempboxa\vtop\bgroup
}{\par\egroup
% measurements of top
\...@tempdima=\ht\@tempboxa
\...@tempdimc=\dp\@tempboxa
\ifd...@tempdima>\ht\strutbox
\advan...@tempdimc\@tempdima
\...@tempdima=\ht\strutbox
\advan...@tempdimc-\@tempdima
\fi
% measurements of bottom
\setb...@tempboxa\vbox{\unvbox\@tempboxa}%
\ifdim\...@tempboxa>\dp\strutbox
\...@tempdimb=\dp\strutbox
\else
\...@tempdimb=\dp\@tempboxa
\fi
\advan...@tempdimc-\@tempdimb
\...@tempcnta=\@tempdimc
\divi...@tempcnta\baselineskip
\advan...@tempdimc -...@tempcnta\baselineskip
\ifd...@tempdimc >2\vfuzz \advan...@tempdimc-\baselineskip \fi
\divi...@tempdimc\tw@
\vbox t...@tempdima{}%
\nobreak \nointerlineskip \ker...@tempdima \ker...@tempdimc \nobreak
\b...@tempboxa
\nobreak \nointerlineskip \ker...@tempdimb \ker...@tempdimc \nobreak
\hbox{\vrule height \z@ width \z@ depth \...@tempdimb}%
}
\makeatother
Seeing how systematised ConTeXt is, I'm assuming something much simpler could
probably be used to achieve the same effect?
Kind regards,
Talal
On 3 Oct 2010, at 20:10, Talal Al-Azem wrote:
> By way of further definition and clarification of the issue: back in the
> world of LaTeX, I was kindly given the following code on CTT by Donald
> Arseneau to produce the desired effect. Mind you, it was only meant to work
> with a paragraph if the entire paragraph was on one page; it wouldn't work if
> split across pages:
>
> %%% Donald Arseneau’s Gridblock Environment %%%
> % For placing paragraphs into a box, and that box then
> % being placed on a “grid” of the baselineskip. This ensures
> % that following paragraphs are also on the grid.
> \makeatletter
> \...@ifundefined{@tempdimc}{\newdim...@tempdimc}{}
> \newenvironment{gridblock}{\par
> \setb...@tempboxa\vtop\bgroup
> }{\par\egroup
> % measurements of top
> \...@tempdima=\ht\@tempboxa
> \...@tempdimc=\dp\@tempboxa
> \ifd...@tempdima>\ht\strutbox
> \advan...@tempdimc\@tempdima
> \...@tempdima=\ht\strutbox
> \advan...@tempdimc-\@tempdima
> \fi
> % measurements of bottom
> \setb...@tempboxa\vbox{\unvbox\@tempboxa}%
> \ifdim\...@tempboxa>\dp\strutbox
> \...@tempdimb=\dp\strutbox
> \else
> \...@tempdimb=\dp\@tempboxa
> \fi
> \advan...@tempdimc-\@tempdimb
> \...@tempcnta=\@tempdimc
> \divi...@tempcnta\baselineskip
> \advan...@tempdimc -...@tempcnta\baselineskip
> \ifd...@tempdimc >2\vfuzz \advan...@tempdimc-\baselineskip \fi
> \divi...@tempdimc\tw@
> \vbox t...@tempdima{}%
> \nobreak \nointerlineskip \ker...@tempdima \ker...@tempdimc \nobreak
> \b...@tempboxa
> \nobreak \nointerlineskip \ker...@tempdimb \ker...@tempdimc \nobreak
> \hbox{\vrule height \z@ width \z@ depth \...@tempdimb}%
> }
> \makeatother
>
>
> Seeing how systematised ConTeXt is, I'm assuming something much simpler could
> probably be used to achieve the same effect?
>
> Kind regards,
> Talal
>
>
> On 2 Oct 2010, at 23:23, Talal Al-Azem wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This is important for anyone working with mixed language (font) texts. In my
>> example, the overall document is Latin-based (e.g. English), with a
>> paragraph of Arabic text; I want this Arabic paragraph as a whole to fit
>> onto the grid (though obviously the individual Arabic lines of the paragraph
>> would not).
>>
>> Currently, when I typeset an English paragraph, followed by an Arabic
>> paragraph, followed by an English paragraph, the second English paragraph is
>> no longer on the grid, having been throw off by the Arabic one. I'm looking
>> for some way to automatically calculate and fill in the vspace needed for
>> this.
>>
>> This is not the same as the issue of an Arabic word or phrase (or mathematic
>> formula) being typeset in the midst of Latin text, as discussed
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg46163.html. Having read a
>> few other matters on the mailing list (largely involving Idris and Hans),
>> I'm sure it's possible, but I can't figure it out.
>>
>> Any help would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Talal
>
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