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| author | Jeffrey H. Kingston <jeff@it.usyd.edu.au> | 2010-09-14 20:41:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeffrey H. Kingston <jeff@it.usyd.edu.au> | 2010-09-14 20:41:52 +0000 |
| commit | 66b683579143de15598c16695df72d1b224c2030 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dfc6d44e7517fb3e1fe838239daac263948bbf5 /doc/user/typ_plai | |
| parent | 3c59753b94d0425e7ddcc4b57b11dfb283d0c144 (diff) | |
| download | lout-66b683579143de15598c16695df72d1b224c2030.tar.gz | |
Lout 3.37.
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/lout/trunk@43 9365b830-b601-4143-9ba8-b4a8e2c3339c
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/typ_plai b/doc/user/typ_plai index 8b5c327..00aa8b9 100644 --- a/doc/user/typ_plai +++ b/doc/user/typ_plai @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ example, {@Code "@Bullet"} produces {@Code "o"}. However, the @Code "@Char" and @Code "@Sym" symbols often produce unprintable characters, and are best avoided; } @LI { All font and size changes are ignored, since plain text has only -one font and size. Every character is taken to be @Eq { 1 frac 10 } inch -wide and @Eq { 1 frac 6 } inch high; } +one font and size. Every character is taken to be @M { 1 frac 10 } inch +wide and @M { 1 frac 6 } inch high; } @LI { No underlines are printed; } @LI { No margin notes are printed; } @LI { Scaled objects are not printed unless the scale factor happens to be 1; } @@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ The worst problem with plain text is that characters cannot be placed at arbitrary points on the page. A superscript, for example, is impossible to place correctly, so Lout uses a different layout for footnote labels (and makes a mess of equations, which are best avoided). Because of this problem -it's best to make all horizontal lengths multiples of @Eq {1 frac 10} inch +it's best to make all horizontal lengths multiples of @M {1 frac 10} inch (conveniently expressed as {@Code 1s}), and all vertical lengths multiples -of @Eq { 1 frac 6 } inch (conveniently expressed as {@Code 1f}). To help +of @M { 1 frac 6 } inch (conveniently expressed as {@Code 1f}). To help you do this, the setup files contain many entries that look like this example: @ID @Code "# @InitialBreak { {adjust 1.2fx hyphen} @OrIfPlain {ragged 1fx nohyphen} }" |