[OS X TeX] OT: where lines align

[Maarten Sneep]

On 18 nov 2004, at 0:51, Jan Anderssen wrote:

[snip]

> being no typesetter, i don't know what the appropriate typographic 
> terminology is, but it always seems to me like a one dimensional 
> version of grid systems (as in josef müller-brockmann).

Making sure that lines align on facing pages, and recto and verso pages 
(front and back of the same sheet) is known as typesetting on a grid. 
Frank Mittelbach may have tried this under LaTeX, Context has a more 
robust support for it, it even includes a description of why you want 
this (especially on thin paper).

Maarten
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