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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Michael P Friedlander wrote:

> --On Wednesday, November 14, 2001 04:05:40 PM +0100 Joris van der Hoeven
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > It seems that you have only set the bottom border of your cell.
> 
> That's right: I only want, and only set, a bottom border to the cell.  The
> problem is that in the postscript output, a border appears around the
> *entire* cell, not just the bottom.  Here's a (very small, 12k) screenshot
> of the postscript output:
> 
> http://www.stanford.edu/~mpf/table.jpg

In fact, I think that this is really an error in ghostscript:
TeXmacs probably attempts to draw boxes with width or height zero.
Please try to print your postscript file to a printer;
I think that the output should be OK.
Nevertheless, I should have a look and avoid to draw boxes
with width or height zero...

> > If you want a border around your cell, then you should use
> > "Border icon"->border and type 2pt RET in the footer.
> > Also, the preffered unit for line widths (like borders or
> > fraction bars) is "ln"; the standard table format uses 1ln
> > (same width as the fraction bar).
> 
> Where are the different lengths described?  "pt" is a standard unit -- what
> is the meaning of 1 ln?

As I said, 1ln stands for the width of the fraction bar (or the bar in
a square root, or the bar in an overline, etc.). This width is in general
different from 1pt: it may actually depend on the font (and not only on
the size of the font).

-Joris-