From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: paragraph question
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:22:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090305152207.GG19777@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11D7D977-5B17-4C4F-9158-EAA213A7CD4D@gmail.com>
Dnia Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:14:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster napisał(a):
>
> 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?
Well, obviously not:). But I only wanted to show that it _is_ possible
to know in which line we are before we have the whole paragraph typeset
(although with limitations). Sorry, it was a bit off-topic, but I
couldn't resist the temptation to point out that Wolfgang The Great TeX
Haxxor doesn't know something:P.
>
> Wolfgang
regards
--
Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl)
Szema Izrael: Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Ehad!
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 11:49 Alan Stone
2009-03-04 16:02 ` Alan Stone
2009-03-04 16:32 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-04 16:33 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-04 17:40 ` Alan Stone
2009-03-04 22:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2009-03-04 23:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-05 8:05 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-05 12:45 ` Alan Stone
2009-03-05 12:55 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-05 13:25 ` Alan Stone
2009-03-05 13:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-05 14:05 ` Marcin Borkowski
2009-03-05 14:14 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-05 15:22 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2009-03-05 14:08 ` Alan Stone
2009-03-05 14:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-05 16:09 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-05 16:21 ` Alan Stone
2009-03-05 18:35 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-06 9:42 ` Alan Stone
2009-03-06 14:05 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-06 14:25 ` Alan Stone
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