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bug #62617: doc/groff.texi: clarify relationship between type size and vertical spacing

Submitter:  Dave <barx>
Submitted:  Sat 11 Jun 2022 11:45:16 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  2 - Minor
Item Group:  Documentation Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.23.0
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Wed 15 Jun 2022 02:02:26 PM UTC, comment #2: 


commit 70b8938e4b98547eb94f6c3ea95f53fcbbd273e0
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 15 06:45:52 2022 -0500

    [docs]: Revise introduction of vertical spacing.

    [docs]: Revise introduction of vertical spacing context to avoid render
    inference that the formatter will compute a vertical spacing appropriate
    to the type size automagically--it will not.

    Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62617>.  Thanks to Dave Kemper for
    the report.


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Sun 12 Jun 2022 02:10:20 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the reminder, Dave.  I vaguely recalled that you'd brought this up but had lost track of the ticket.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Sat 11 Jun 2022 11:45:16 PM UTC, original submission:  

(This was briefly discussed in email (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-04/msg00001.html) but appears to have fallen through the cracks.  That thread has more detail and discussion.)

This is a request to tweak wording that commit 52604fdd modified to say: "In ordinary circumstances, this quantity is 120% of the type size."

This is the typographic convention.  But nothing in groff makes this 120% "ordinary": the user must explicitly specify a .vs value that is 120% of her .ps value in order to make this true.  One alternate way to phrase this could be, "Traditionally, typesetters have set this quantity to 120% of the type size."

Dave <barx>
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