[XeTeX] \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics (was Re: Re: [OS X TeX] gtamacfonts ligatures: PDF searchability)

[Ross Moore]

Hi Bruno,

On 18/05/2006, at 7:01 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> What has me thinking this: the earlier example was from a figure 
> caption, typeset in \footnotesize; and looking more closely, I'm not 
> seeing exactly the same effect in the body of the paper, in 
> \normalsize. Namely, descenders on one line followed by superscripts 
> on the next line add some interline spacing in \footnotesize:

Are you sure that the \par happens in the right place ?
Compare:

.... {\footnotesize ..... \par}

.... {\footnotesize ..... }\par

where \par might come from a blank line.

> In \normalsize I'm even seeing XeTeX accepting practically zero 
> vertical space between a descender and a superscript:
>
> <Image 10.png>
>
> I'll stop here, as I'm really only guessing.
>
> Bruno Voisin_______________________________________________
>

Cheers

	Ross