X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["362" "Thu" "16" "September" "1999" "16:36:52" "+0100" "David Carlisle" "davidc@NAG.CO.UK" nil "17" "Re: specials and vertical space" "^Date:" nil nil "9" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25810 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:40:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.F6F500DD@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:40:00 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 445887 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:40:00 +0200 Received: from nag.co.uk (openmath.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.16]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11313 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:39:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by nag.co.uk (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id QAA15868; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:36:52 +0100 (BST) References: <199909161529.LAA11383@fenris.math.albany.edu> Message-ID: <199909161536.QAA15868@nag.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199909161529.LAA11383@fenris.math.albany.edu> (message from Mark Steinberger on Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:29:21 -0400) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:36:52 +0100 From: David Carlisle Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: specials and vertical space Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3328 > Can latex address this issue yes > or is it an underlying tex problem? yes (but latex can try to work round it) > Has anyone else noticed this? yes > Is there any potential cure? yes see the slides at http://www.latex-project.org/talks/tug99.pdf especially the slide with the competion, you'll see that this is the subject of one of the questions... David