Fwd: BOUNCE ntg-context@let.uu.nl: Non-member submission from [Mari L J Voipio <mvoipio@cc.helsinki.fi>]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

>Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:54:21 +0200 (MET DST)
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>From: Mari L J Voipio <mvoipio@cc.helsinki.fi>
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>[Let's hope me and my mailer now agree enough on things that this doesn't
>fasten in the spam filter any more - sorry, Hans, if it does.]
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>On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Kris Hermans wrote:
>
> > I tried it, but I get the following error:
>
> >                    \par
>
>Judging from the old messages I browsed when trying to do a multiline
>footer you need to use \endgraf instead of \par (there was an explanation
>as well, but I didn't probably understand much of it).

\par is kind of special and only accepted as argument when macros are 
defined \long; a kind of left over from the days when computers were slow 
and memory sparse and catching run away args was important.

>However, I tested this code and it at least kind of works, may need some
>fine tuning which is beyond my means:
>
>\setupheadertexts
>    [\vbox
>        {Name: \dotfill . \endgraf
>         Classroom: \dotfill . \endgraf
>         Date: \dotfill .}]
>    [\blank]
>
>
>
>Mari

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