Page Layout ⇒ Leading: suppress automatic vertical spacing

[adamr]

Hi,

What is the best way to maintain a uniform baseline grid in the textblock?
I'm setting a book with equations, figures, etc... I would like all of the body text to hit a baseline grid. With titlesec I have set all the spacing around headings to not interefere with the grid, but there are a still a few problems:

• 1. There seems to be some automatic vertical space computation going on -- perhaps to avoid orphans/widows, or to stretch pages to fill the textblock. Is there a way to suppress this?
  
  2. After equations and figures, text does not necessary start on the grid. Do I need to manually compute appropriate bounding boxes in multiples of the baselineskip or is the automatic way?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[phi]

Currently LaTeX cannot do grid setting. Use ConTeXt instead.

[adamr]

Currently LaTeX cannot do grid setting. Use ConTeXt instead.

Thanks for the pointer, phi. I started skimming the page layout section of the ConTeXt manual... it looks good!

(I didn't realize LaTeX had no support for baseline grids. I would argue they are mandatory for setting a book.)

[phi]

I didn't realize LaTeX had no support for baseline grids. I would argue they are mandatory for setting a book.

Grids seem to be quite uncommon in the natural sciences that LaTeX has been designed for.