Re: breaks and the no-break control character

2023-05-06 Thread Dave Kemper
On 5/6/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Fortunately it's not so bad. "Most recent" was meant to refer to the > extra-post vertical line space _applied to the output line_, not > encountered in an escape sequence. I considered testing this before posting to avoid potentially putting my foot in my

Re: breaks and the no-break control character

2023-05-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-05-06T22:32:37-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 5/5/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > We seem to have an ugly bit of non-orthogonality in this area. > > > > quantityregister access > > > > extra pre-vertical line spacing n/a > > vertical (line) spacing

Re: breaks and the no-break control character

2023-05-06 Thread Dave Kemper
On 5/5/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > We seem to have an ugly bit of non-orthogonality in this area. > > quantity register access > > extra pre-vertical line spacing n/a > vertical (line) spacing .v > extra post-vertical line spaci

Re: breaks and the no-break control character

2023-05-05 Thread Dave Kemper
On 5/5/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > We can assert that the position of the text baseline is one of those > properties of the output line that is not determined until the line has > been broken. And what the `sp` request really does is decide where your > next text baseline is going to be. Th

Re: breaks and the no-break control character

2023-05-05 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-05-04T20:21:01-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > Discussion about the request invocation 'br in > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62776#comment14 made me also wonder > about 'sp, another seemingly paradoxical invocation. But like 'br, > this seems clearly enough documented in the info manual: > >

breaks and the no-break control character

2023-05-04 Thread Dave Kemper
Hi, Discussion about the request invocation 'br in http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62776#comment14 made me also wonder about 'sp, another seemingly paradoxical invocation. But like 'br, this seems clearly enough documented in the info manual: "Several other requests imply breaks: ... 'sp', I