Re: inline-graphics and unwanted line-break

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

2007/11/29, Peter Schorsch <tralalas@freenet.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small metapost graphic I like to use inline. But the arragement
> behaves a little bit "unpractically". As soon there is no character in front
> of the graphic context will break the line after the graphic - but as soon
> there is a character in front of the graphic, context does not adding a
> linebreak after the graphic.
>
> Does anyone know how to prevent the line-break after the graphic if the
> graphic is the first inline?
>
> Thanks, P.
>
> example-file:
>
> \startuseMPgraphic{zo}
>         color schwarz ; schwarz := (.0,.0,.0) ;
>         draw
> (0pt,0pt)--(0pt,8pt)--(5pt,12pt)--(10pt,8pt)--(10pt,0pt)--(0pt,0pt)--cycle
> withcolor schwarz ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \starttext
>
> \hbox{\useMPgraphic{zo}} test text - why a line-break? How to prevent this?

write \dontleavehmode\hbox{...}, this is normal TeX bahaviour and has nothing
special to do with ConTeXt.

> a \hbox{\useMPgraphic{zo}} test text - this is fine: no line-break!

the "a" starts horizontal mode but a \hbox did not and this can be
sometimes usefull

> \stoptext

Wolfgang
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