Re[2]: nath: \wall and \return doesn't work?

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Saturday, October 16, 2004 Christopher Creutzig wrote:

> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>>>I thought the \return were to go to the horizontal position of the
>>>\wall, in the next line?  For me, both lines are flush left.

>> You are returning too soon. Lines should be ended by \\, not
>> \return, unless they are the last indented line; your snipped
>> should rather go:

>   I see -- \return is not “return to the horizontal position,” but
> rather, \return is the end of the \wall-indented part, right?

Exactly. \wall sets a "new home position" that gets obeyed by
all *subsequent* lines (each of them ended by \\) until a
\return is met, which "backtracks" the home position to the
previous one (you can have multiple \walls).

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta