Re: Omitting hyphenation

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 21.06.10 22:04, schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 21-6-2010 8:03, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Am 21.06.10 19:50, schrieb Matija Šuklje:
>>> Dne ponedeljek 21. junija 2010 ob 19:47:08 je Wolfgang Schuster
>>> napisal(a):
>>>> Am 21.06.10 18:53, schrieb Yury G. Kudryashov:
>>>>> Try \hbox{word} (AFAIR, this is a plain TeX command)
>>>> If you want a context command then use \mbox ;)
>>> Is there any practical difference?
>>
>> No but i wish there is one, e.g. the following example shows a problem
>> with \hbox.
>>
>> \starttext
>> \hbox{test} text text
>> \blank
>> \dontleavehmode\hbox{test} text text
>> \stoptext
>>
>> As you can see in the output the first 'test' starts 'text text' on a
>> new line and i forced \hbox
>> to appear in horizontal mode with \dontleavehmode and this can't be
>> changed because \hbox is a TeX
>> primitive and you have to rely on this behaviour. The \mbox command
>> isn't a primitive and i would
>> be so easy to add \dontleavehmode to it's definition to make sure the
>> text after \mbox won't appear
>> on a new line, this means in this example both lines result in the same
>> output.
>>
>> \starttext
>> \dontleavehmode\hbox{test} text text
>> \blank
>> \mbox{test} text text
>> \stoptext
>
> we can have
>
> \unexpanded\def\mbox
>   {\ifmmode\normalmbox\else\dontleavehmode\normalhbox\fi}
>
> as i never use this command it won't break my documents -)

thanks, this looks good

Wolfgang
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