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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: treat framed and externalfigure as characters
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 22:53:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44610150.6060200@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4460EBE1.1050104@elvenkind.com>

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Peter M�nster wrote:
>   
>> Hello Taco and Hans,
>>
>> in http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector/89
>> you write
>>    "Both Hans and me have documents that depend on \framed staying in
>>     vertical mode."
>>
>> Could you give me an example please?
>>     
>
> For instance in a recipe booklet, where one of the macros
> goes like this:
>
>    \def\startrecipe[#1]%
>      {\getparameters[Recipe]
>         [Title=,Summary=,Image=none,#1]% ..
>       \framed{\tfd \RecipeTitle}%
>       \externalfigure[\RecipeImage]%
>       {\bf\RecipeSummary}%
>       \blank }
>
> I am not saying that that is the best way to write macros (and I 
> certainly do not do it like that anymore) but changing the behaviour
> would break quite a lot of my existing documents, including some
> I have been payed for to do.
>
> Maybe Hans is willing to add a global switch that you can set at
> the top of your document(s).
>
> For Hans: Peter would like an implicit \dontleavehmode added to
> \framed and \externalfigure, so they behave more like characters
> (not like \hboxes).
>   
as you say, a dangerous feature that would break much (keep in mind that 
\framed is used all over the place)


Hans

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-09 16:11 Peter Münster
2006-05-09 19:22 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-05-09 20:19   ` Peter Münster
2006-05-09 21:07     ` Hans Hagen
2006-05-10 15:37       ` Peter Münster
2006-05-10 18:35         ` Hans Hagen
2006-05-09 20:53   ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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