Re: [Q] \inleft [was Re: Enumerating paragraphs]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:53 PM 9/19/00 -0400, Hans Fredrik Nordhaug wrote:
>On 20 Sep 2000, Guy Worthington wrote:
>
>> Thanks Hans Hagen for your reply.  I'm continually amazed at what
>> you've packed into ConTeXt, the \inleft command is exactly what I
>> want.
>
>Hi, a newbie question coming up:
>
>Is there any difference between \inleft and \llap?
>If not, is there a lot of commands in ConTeXt that just are wrappers
>around plain TeX commands? [Anyway \inleft was a good name.]

Concerning \llap, that plain one is reimplemented (liek a few more) to be
more robust in tricky situations. 

Concerning \inleft, this is definitely a different command, since it takes
care of proper placement with regards to the left margin distance; the
\inleft \inright \inmargin \margintitle commands take multiples lines and
go to a far extend to align properly; \margintitle also stacks marginal
things that can then be placed at given locations with given characteristics 

[some more margin trickery is in beta stage here, esp proper alignment with
math formulas]

Concerning plain wrappers, i never counted the lines, but context is
written mostly from scratch (for me it was the only way to learn tex),
plain is there for as far as useful, and most of plain is low level stuff
needed for math and basic housekeeping; if you look in syst-tex, you will
notice that I bypass some plain defs [overloading] like fonts. 

BTW, plain tex in itself does not offer much typo things. I used to load
the etex format too, but now I just implement the additional register
things myself and the rest is not needed anyway. For some users it's
comfortable to have the plain stuff available, so i leave it there.   

Hans  
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