[latex3-commits] [latex2e-public] r1437 - filling a page

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Author: carlisle
Date: 2017-03-30 18:49:52 +0200 (Thu, 30 Mar 2017)
New Revision: 1437

Modified:
   trunk/doc/ltnews27.tex
Log:
filling a page

Modified: trunk/doc/ltnews27.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc/ltnews27.tex	2017-03-30 11:33:48 UTC (rev 1436)
+++ trunk/doc/ltnews27.tex	2017-03-30 16:49:52 UTC (rev 1437)
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 Since before the first releases of \LaTeXe, \LaTeX\ has used a date
 format in the form \textsc{yyyy/mm/dd}. This has many advantages over more
 conventional formats, as it is easy to sort and avoids the unfortunate
-ambiguity between different communities as to whether 2017/01/02 is the
+ambiguity between different communities as to whether 01/02/2017 is the
 1st of February or 2nd of January.
 
 However there is another date format, formalised by the
@@ -117,7 +117,19 @@
   has not been set by preamble code. This is very similar to the
   handling of the default color.  and is used in a similar way to
   normalise the settings for page head and foot as described above.
-users should not normally need to set this explicitly but it expected that
+Users should not normally need to set this explicitly but it expected that
 language packages such as \textsf{babel} may set this if the default
 behaviour is not suitable.
+
+\section{Line Spacing in parboxes}
+Inside a \verb|\parbox| 
+\LaTeX\ normalises the baseline spacing. However it has not
+previously reset \verb|\lineskiplimit|. This meant that
+lines of a paragraph that have ascenders or descenders could be set
+with \emph{closer} line spacing than lines without. This can easily
+happen if you use a \verb|\parbox| in an AMS alignment, as they use a
+relativly large value of \verb|\lineskiplimit|.
+As usual, the \textsf{latexrelease} package may be used to
+force the older behavior.
+  
 \end{document}