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Doug McKenna wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Dear typesetting cogniscenti,
In "official typesetting rules" (TeX or otherwise) are descenders supposed to be completely above the bottom margin bounds of a page? Or is just the baseline of the bottom line of a full page supposed to conform to the margin bounds?
Doug McKenna
Mathemaesthetics, Inc.</pre>
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I just happened to be typesetting an A3 poster using Adobe InDesign
today, and needing every last vertical millimetre I pushed
everything down until it nearly reached the lower margin (20mm from
page edge); I then nudged it tiny increment by tiny increment until
the last line suddenly disappeared — by that time, all of the
descenders in that last line had protruded into the margin, and it
was only when the first character that did not extend below the
baseline edged into the margin that the whole line was jettisoned as
"won't fit".<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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