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% language=uk
\environment details-environment
\startcomponent details-snappingheads
\startchapter[title={Snapping heads}]
The grid snapper in \MKIV\ is quite different from the one in \MKII. For not too
complex layouts the old grid snapper was quite ok, but the new one should be a
bit more robust. In the old situation the running text was assumed to fit on the
grid and the normal baseline skip should do the job in combination with the grid
aware spacing features and placement mechanisms like tables and figures.
Snapping on a fixed grid is sort of counter intuitive in \TEX\ because it has an a
advanced spacing model with glue. Publishers however love grids so we do need to
support it. Of course when complex layouts are involved in a later stage of
document preparation the grid is often abandoned. This manual uses the grid but I
personally never use the grid. There are better ways to make your document look
good and often a grid snapped document doesn't look that great anyway, because
all elements should somehow fit in multiples of the line height.
The \MKIV\ snapper does more analysis and therefore can compensate for the more
nasty cases. Of course it can still fail but we hope to fix those cases when we
run into them. Grids are controlled by keywords or a combination of them.
\starttabulate[|tCT{blue}||]
\NC none \NC don't enlarge \NC \NR
\NC halfline \NC enlarge by halfline/halfline \NC \NR
\NC line \NC enlarge by line/line \NC \NR
\NC strut \NC enlarge by ht/dp (default) \NC \NR
\NC first \NC align to top line \NC \NR
\NC last \NC align to bottom line \NC \NR
\NC mindepth \NC round depth down \NC \NR
\NC maxdepth \NC round depth up \NC \NR
\NC minheight \NC round height down \NC \NR
\NC maxheight \NC round height up \NC \NR
\NC local \NC use local interline space \NC \NR
\NC offset:-3tp \NC vertical shift within box \NC \NR
\NC bottom:lines \NC \NC \NR
\NC top:lines \NC \NC \NR
\NC box \NC centers a box rounded upwards (box:.5 -> tolerance) \NC \NR
\NC min \NC centers a box rounded downwards \NC \NR
\NC max \NC centers a box rounded upwards \NC \NR
\stoptabulate
We combine these directives in so called grid options:
\starttyping
\definegridsnapping [normal] [maxheight,maxdepth,strut]
\definegridsnapping [standard] [maxheight,maxdepth,strut]
\definegridsnapping [yes] [maxheight,maxdepth,strut]
\definegridsnapping [strict] [maxdepth:0.8,maxheight:0.8,strut]
\definegridsnapping [tolerant] [maxdepth:1.2,maxheight:1.2,strut]
\definegridsnapping [math] [maxdepth:1.05,maxheight:1.05,strut]
\definegridsnapping [top] [minheight,maxdepth,strut]
\definegridsnapping [bottom] [maxheight,mindepth,strut]
\definegridsnapping [both] [minheight,mindepth,strut]
\definegridsnapping [broad] [maxheight,maxdepth,strut,0.8]
\definegridsnapping [fit] [maxheight,maxdepth,strut,1.2]
\definegridsnapping [first] [first]
\definegridsnapping [last] [last]
\definegridsnapping [high] [minheight,maxdepth,none]
\definegridsnapping [one] [minheight,mindepth]
\definegridsnapping [low] [maxheight,mindepth,none]
\definegridsnapping [none] [none]
\definegridsnapping [line] [line]
\definegridsnapping [strut] [strut]
\definegridsnapping [box] [box]
\definegridsnapping [min] [min]
\definegridsnapping [max] [max]
\definegridsnapping [middle] [maxheight,maxdepth]
\stoptyping
As you can see, keys like \type {maxdepth} can take a criterium as extra detail,
separated by a colon. These options look obscure and often you need to trial and
error a bit to get what you want. This is no real problem because most cases are
handles automatically. Only headings and structuring elements that exceed a
line height might need some treatment. For instance you might want to be more
tolerant for (fractions of) a point overflow or when you know that always a blank
follows you can decide to limit the height of some element to a line. Some of
the options, like \type {math} and \type {middle} are used internally.
On the next pages we show how the \type {maxheight} and \type {maxdepth}
fractions work on a sample line.
\page
\bgroup
\page
\enabledirectives[visualizers.fraction=.5]
\dostepwiserecurse {0} {10} {1} {
\edef\one{\ifnum#1=10 10\else0.#1\fi}
\dostepwiserecurse {0} {10} {1} {
\edef\two{\ifnum##1=10 10\else0.##1\fi}
\definegridsnapping [test:\one:\two][maxdepth:\one,maxheight:\two,strut]
\par
\blackrule[height=1pt,depth=1pt,width=\textwidth,color=green]
\par
\par
\snaptogrid[test:\one:\two]
\ruledhbox{\backgroundline[red]{\white\bf maxdepth:\one,maxheight:\two}}
\par
}
}
\par
\blackrule[height=1pt,depth=1pt,width=\textwidth,color=green]
\par
\page
\enabledirectives[visualizers.fraction]
\egroup
Next we show some of the options in action. For practical reasons we start a new
page each time. The sample is input as:
\startbuffer
\bf none \par
\bfb \hskip2cm none \par
\bfd \hskip6cm none \par
\bf test \par
\bfb \hskip2cm test \par
\bfd \hskip6cm test \par
\bf grid \par
\bfb \hskip2cm grid \par
\bfd \hskip6cm grid \par
\bf \strut strut \par
\bfb \hskip2cm \strut strut \par
\bfd \hskip6cm \strut strut \par
\bfb \hskip2cm \setstrut \strut setstrut \par
\bfd \hskip6cm \setstrut \strut setstrut \par
\stopbuffer
\typebuffer
\unexpanded\def\SampleGrid#1%
{\page
\section{Grid snapping method \quotation{#1}}
This is just a line to start with but next we %
show what method \type {#1} does. \par
\start
\setuplayout[grid=#1] % the demo value
\showstruts
\getbuffer
\stop
And here we end the demo.
\setuplayout[grid=yes] % the document default
\page}
\SampleGrid{normal}
\SampleGrid{strict}
\SampleGrid{tolerant}
\SampleGrid{top}
\SampleGrid{bottom}
\SampleGrid{both}
\SampleGrid{broad}
\SampleGrid{fit}
\SampleGrid{first}
\SampleGrid{last}
\SampleGrid{high}
\SampleGrid{one}
\SampleGrid{low}
\SampleGrid{none}
\SampleGrid{line}
\SampleGrid{strut}
\SampleGrid{box}
\SampleGrid{min}
\SampleGrid{max}
\SampleGrid{middle}
We now come to the topic of this chapter: snapping heads. The problem with
section heads is that they often exceed the line height. Even worse, they can
be more than one line high.
The next pages show some ways to control snapping around heads. The result can be
confusing, even when we use a font that we assume behaves like a regular style.
For instance in Latin Modern the bold style has larger heights and depths than
the regular style and even 0.1pt can force the snapper to add a line. The
examples use that font.
The grid option of \type {setuphead} normally takes one keyword that refers to
the local snapper. However, the result gets then snapped again. This is because
the local snapper can use a different line height. Historically the local snapper is
the default but you can force global snapping by prefixing with the \type
{global} keyword. The next table summarizes the ways you can control snapping:
\starttabulate
\NC \type {(nothing)} \NC local snapping plus global snapping \NC \NR
\NC \type {local} \NC local snapping plus global snapping \NC \NR
\NC \type {foo} \NC local \type {foo} snapping cf.\ font style plus global snapping \NC \NR
\NC \type {local:foo} \NC local \type {foo} snapping cf.\ font style plus global snapping \NC \NR
\NC \type {global} \NC global snapping \NC \NR
\NC \type {global:foo} \NC global \type {foo} snapping \NC \NR
\stoptabulate
\startbuffer[demo]
\setuppapersize
[A5][A5]
\setuplayout
[grid=yes,
width=middle,
height=middle,
backspace=1cm,
topspace=2mm,
lines=38,
bottomspace=2mm,
footer=0cm,
header=4mm,
headerdistance=5mm]
\definehead
[MyHead]
[subsubsubject]
[style=\tf,
textstyle=,
numberstyle=,
before=,
after=]
\showgrid
\starttext
\starttexdefinition TestHead #1
\page
\setupheadertexts[\type{#1}]
\setuphead[MyHead][grid={#1},style=\tf,interlinespace=]
\MyHead{some head 1.1}
\hskip1cm line following 1.1
\MyHead{some head 1.2}
\hskip1cm line following 1.2
\MyHead{some head 1.3a\par some head 1.3b}
\hskip1cm line following 1.3
\setuphead[MyHead][grid={#1},style=\bf,interlinespace=]
\MyHead{some head 2.1}
\hskip1cm line following 2.1
\MyHead{some head 2.2}
\hskip1cm line following 2.2
\MyHead{some head 2.3a\par some head 2.3b}
\hskip1cm line following 2.3
\setuphead[MyHead][grid=,style=\bf,interlinespace=4ex]
\MyHead{some head 3.1}
\hskip1cm line following 3.1
\MyHead{some head 3.2}
\hskip1cm line following 3.2
\MyHead{some head 3.3a\par some head 3.3b}
\hskip1cm line following 3.3
\setuphead[MyHead][grid={#1},style=\bfb,interlinespace=]
\MyHead{some head 4.1}
\hskip1cm line following 4.1
\MyHead{some head 4.2}
\hskip1cm line following 4.2
\page
\stoptexdefinition
\TestHead{yes}
\TestHead{tolerant}
\TestHead{global:tolerant}
\stoptext
\stopbuffer
\typebuffer
\placefigure[page]{}{\typesetbuffer[demo][page=1,background=color,backgroundcolor=white,width=\textwidth]}
\placefigure[page]{}{\typesetbuffer[demo][page=2,background=color,backgroundcolor=white,width=\textwidth]}
\placefigure[page]{}{\typesetbuffer[demo][page=3,background=color,backgroundcolor=white,width=\textwidth]}
\stopchapter
\stopcomponent
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