[texhax] Strange formatting.

W.J. Metzger wes at hef.ru.nl
Tue Apr 13 15:49:21 CEST 2010


Adding a \strut seems to fix it:

   Dear brothers:
   I think that God has made us apostles the most abject of

Cheers, Wes

> --------
> Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:
>>  This is something I have never seen with LaTex before.  If you look at
>>  the .pdf file, you see that the line height for the second line (and
>>  possibly the first as well) is smaller than the others. This the source:
>>
>>  \documentclass[11pt,a5paper]{article}
>>
>>  \usepackage{geometry}
>>  \geometry{a4paper,tmargin=3cm,bmargin=3cm,lmargin=2.5cm,rmargin=2cm}
>>  \renewcommand\familydefault{ppl}
>>  \begin{document}
>>  \Huge
>>
>>  Dear brothers: I think that God has made us apostles the most abject of
>>  mankind. We experience hunger and thirst, we are naked, we are roughly
>>  handled, and we have no fixed abode ... They curse us and we bless. They
>>  persecute us and we suffer it ... They treat us as the scum of the
>>  earth, the dregs of humanity ... to this very day.
>>  \normalsize
>>
>>  \end{document}
>>
>>  For the curious: This is part of Leonard Bernstein's MASS. I am to read
>>  this text as part of the performance premiere on Saturday (in Bergen,
>>  Norway), and that is why I want the text to be in a large font.
>>
>>  Tom
>

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