From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1271 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: balancing columns with little formatted entries Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:16:27 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991116161627.00a8e9b0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <37EEB0E9.FA9A6530@wxs.nl> <3.0.6.32.19991115204025.0079a8f0@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392099 31252 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:54:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hans Hagen , NTG-ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin) In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1271 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1271 At 09:47 AM 11/16/99 -0500, Ed L. Cashin wrote: >> No %'s needed here. Looks better and saves typing. > >Oops! You've said that before. What is the rule that makes it OK to >leave out the percent signs there? Intuitively, I imagine that for >the case: > > \foo{bar} {baz} > >... foo sees the tokens "bar", " ", "baz"; but that is not the case. You only need %'s in macros, and then only in situations where tex stops reading: \def\something#1% otherwise tex wants a space as delimiter {...} \count4=123 tex sees the space as end of number \ifdim\dimen0=10pt idem dimension \somemacro {a} {b} {c}% only after the last one, only in hmode \ifnum\count2=456% 789 is actually wrong! \ifnum\count2=456 is ok 789 in normal cases no % is needed after any \abc since the space stops the scanner etc etc In a context text you seldom need %'s. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------