[XeTeX] again russian, german, english...

[Jonathan Kew]

On 10 Feb 2006, at 2:48 pm, Martin Henning wrote:

>> 3. To get "close" line spacing with Charis SIL, you need to add  
>> something like
>> 	\setlength{\lineskiplimit}{-4pt}
>> to the preamble, as Charis SIL has very large ascent/descent  
>> values in the font (to allow space for tall/deep characters and  
>> stacked diacritics).
>
> hm. doesn't work for me? i put it after the font-definitions...  
> nothing happens at all....

That's a bit odd; it works for me. Perhaps the document class you're  
using has other ideas about line spacing that override this. (Try it  
with \documentclass{article} and see if that works.) If I have some  
time tomorrow, I'll look at the KOMA classes and perhaps have more to  
say.

JK