Re: 3.13: Word baselines

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to Valeriy E. Ushakov:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:19:43AM -0500, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > This patch makes 3.13 behave as I think it must -- making various
> > words on the same line share a common baseline.
> 
> It's not that simple.

I assumed not.  :-)

> The other pieces are necessary.  First, a proposed @WShift symbol
> (tentative name), that would apply implicit @VShift to every word in
> it's right parameter.

I'm fairly new to lout; why doesn't @VShift serve?  Or does it just
awkward, while @WShift would be less awkward?  And doesn't it make
sense to have @VShiftWords and @HShiftWords?

> Second, x-height should be exported as a length unit, say `x', so
> that @Eq could use 0.5x @WShift to move the mark where it expects it
> to be.

Hey, that's a cool idea.  (But 'x' is already a modifier, is that OK?)
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