Re: paragraph question

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

Am 05.03.2009 um 15:05 schrieb Marcin Borkowski:

>> You can test whether the last paragraph had 1 or more lines and make
>> your decision dependent on the result but this can be done only after
>> the paragraph ist finished.
>
> Well, Wolfgang, you'll be surprised: it can be done (even in pure
> vanilla TeX), at the expense of (possibly) nonuniform spacing.  Google
> for a file "meashor.tex":).  (In Poland, we have a saying: "nasi  
> górą!"
> -- roughly "our people win!" -- I can't resist citing it here, since  
> it
> was Bogusław Jackowski who wrote that macros:)).

I found the information about display math in my TeX book (although my
TeX skills are not good enough to to write the code) but Alan want to
know the number of lines before the text is typeset to insert a lettrine
at the begin of the paragraph, can you also deliver code for this?

Wolfgang

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