Re: no line breaks between figures

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> Now since \placefigure internally places its contents in a \vbox, this 
> boils down to a differnce beween

that will not change .. (being in vmode also has advantages with regards 
to spurious spaces)

> The redefinition at ConTeXt will break some existing documents (i.e., 
> the authors will have to manually add a \vbox where there was none 
> earlier). The redefinition at tikz end will make all pgf code run 
> slightly slower (an extra hbox for each typeset pgfpicture)

not that much slower i guess as not much repackaging is needed, just a 
box flush; in tikz parsing and calculations of the graphic take much 
more time (just take look at traced output); if you want to optimize 
tikz there are other tricks

> If neither of these is acceptable, then we can have a simple wrapper 
> around \start-stop tikzpicture:
> 
> \def\startTIKZcode{\hbox\bgroup\starttikzpicture}
> \def\stopTIKZcode {\stoptikzpicture\egroup}
> 
> which will only affect ConTeXt code.

or just add a \dontleavehmode in front of the picture

Hans

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