Hi. I'm astonished! I thought \fontdimen 8 to 12 are parameters for fractions, and fontdimen 13 is for exponents (and normal text fonts usually contain only fontdimen 1 to 7)??? Is the TeXBook, chap. G now obsolete? Regards, Ulrich -- Art & Satz Ulrich Dirr Arnimstraße 9 81369 München Germany/Deutschland -- fon (+49 89) 743 30 60 fax (+49 89) 743 30 61 email [log in to unmask] -- -=*:-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Hellström" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 6:05 PM Subject: Re: Baseline grid alignment after headings > At 09.42 +0200 2000-09-20, Ulrich Dirr wrote: > [snip] > >May be it would be helpful if -- and what is in the AFM files -- to > >incorporate the ascender/cap height into the TFM (and let TeX know about > >that), so that one could align special material with respect to the > >ascender/cap heigth. > > T1 encoded fonts in general already include these two parameters and a > couple of others. I would guess that the ones that interest you are: > \fontdimen 8 is cap height > \fontdimen 9 is ascender height > \fontdimen 10 is accented cap height > \fontdimen 11 is descender's depth > \fontdimen 12 is max height > \fontdimen 13 is max depth > I don't think there is a proper LaTeX interface for using them yet though > (although I think something like a fontdimen interface was part of some > early template example). > > OTOH I have the impression that the usual way of getting predictable height > and depth of a box is to include a \strut in them (this is not all that > nice since the dimensions of the \strutbox only depends on the > \baselineskip, but people usually make do anyway). > > Lars Hellström >