[XeTeX] tabular getting flattened into one line

[Cyril]

On 20 sept. 06, at 04:49, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
> It looks to me like the default line spacing (baselineskip) is
> getting set very small for some reason; then the highly negative
> \lineskiplimit allows text in adjacent lines to overlap, rather than
> the line spacing expanding according to the size of the glyphs.
>
Commenting \lineskiplimit out gives a normal output. Leaving it in  
and adding
\setlength{\baselineskip}{24pt} or \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}  
a bit blindly in the document (inside and outside of the tabular  
environment, I saw no harm in trying…) does not change anything though.

> But why the line spacing is tiny (or zero?) to start with is a
> puzzle. I think we'd need to see a more complete minimal example to
> solve that.
here is one, with the log too. Should I compile it with special options?
Is it possible that i've changed somehow some default on my machine  
and that causes line spacing to go awry? Not being a specialist at  
all, I do not play around with config files, so I do not think that  
is a possibility, but still,  I do not understand why a simple  
tabular cannot be rendered properly. Obviously \lineskiplimit is  
interfering with tabular, it is OK up to -22pt, but lines collide at  
-23pt.

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\setromanfont{Hoefler Text}

%to remove the underfullbox comment
\lineskiplimit=-1000pt
\renewcommand\baselinestretch{1.9}
\raggedbottom

\begin{document}

\textbf{ Flat Tab }

\begin{tabular}{ll}
French  & English\\
German  &  Dutch\\
\end{tabular}

\end{document}
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I've tried getting it as simple as possible and did a test run with  
LaTeX, with no success either.

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\lineskiplimit=-1000pt

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{ll}
French  & English\\
German  &  Dutch\\

\end{tabular}

\end{document}




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