Re: decriptions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Wybo Dekker wrote:

> Another question about the new description environment: before
> > \stopdescriptions
> an empty line appears to be required. Is that a bug or a feature?
> Without it, tex says that it inserted a missing }

This is one the few situations that context expects a \par or empty
line. It has to do with the fact that the par is grabbed, which in
itself is due to the fact that one can set the font. Consider 

\description{text} more text in some specific font 

some text not belonging to the description in the main body font. 

There is no robust way to deal with this. 

In general, one can set up a text rather spacy in context, because quite
some effort went into catching those situations. 

So, it's a nuisance, due to a feature. 

Hans

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