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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Rodolfo Medina wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">It seems to me that it's not possible to achieve what I was asking (well, just
an experiment...), i.e. nullify the depth of text lines; or, in other words,
set \baselineskip to the mere `height' of lines: height, without their depth,
that's zero for `a', `m', and not zero for `g', `p', etc... In that case, the
valour of \baselineskip should be different for different lines, with or
without capital letters in them... and equal to the line height that's
variable. It doesn't seem that TeX has a way to do that...
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Would you not accept equi-spaced lines which are both ascender and
descender presence/height/depth independent ? That effect is easy
to accomplish :<br>
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% !TeX Program=XeTeX
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\hsize =
10 pc</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\parindent
= 0 pt</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\parskip =
1\normalbaselineskip</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\baselineskip
= 1,2 \normalbaselineskip</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\toks 0 =
{Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.
The quick brown fox jump right over the lazy dog's back. Of all
the fish within the sea, the mermaid is the one for me. The Leith
police dismisseth us, for we sufficeth them.}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\lineskip
= 0 pt</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\lineskiplimit
= -\maxdimen</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\loop</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"> \the
\toks 0 \endgraf</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">
\baselineskip = 0,9 \baselineskip</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\ifdim
\baselineskip > 7 pt</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\repeat</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">\end</p>
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