Re: paragraph question

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Alan Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Alan Stone wrote:
>>> Thanks Wolfgang, however I'm looking for a solution without adding
>>> additional commands to the text source.
>>>
>>> Requires to switch to the LuaTeX list ?
>> that does not help you as taco and i are on both lists
>>
>> i can imagine that mkiv at some point privides something but it needs way
>> more thinking (we have this end of par problem since ages) if only because
>> what you see as end of par might actually be just before the final skips
>> that ends a par
>>
>> something everyendpar is on our todo list but later in the luatex project
>>
>> Hans
> 
> Ok.
> 
> In the meantime, an idea - for what it's worth...
> 
> Would it be possible to somehow, in the typesetting process, dummy
> typeset the first paragraph of each chapter (in memory or in a dummy
> output file) to determine whether its number of lines = 1 or > 1, or
> determine its total number of lines, and work from there ?

a luatex/mkiv solution is actually rather simple but i'm in the middle 
of math stuff so it has to wait some time

Hans


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