Re[5]: In-paragraph display

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:25 AM 12/3/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
> >> This is where we differ. After all, the empty line is the
> >> *standard* TeX (and ConTeXt) way to denote new paragraph. While
> >> should it be different for displayed items? It's inconsistent.
>
>BDA> For what it's worth, I agree with Giuseppe here.   It's the same issue
>BDA> I had with block quotes: that even if there's no blank line, ConTeXt
>BDA> assumes new paragraph.
>
>The blockquote example is a very good example, IMO: an
>"indipendent" (new paragraphed) block quote/quotation/whatever is
>not "conceptually" different from a "displayed" (that doesn't
>start a new paragraph) block quote/quotation/whatever. So there
>should be no need to mark it up differently (as is required by the
>ConTeXt assumption on paragrah breaking).

wait till you enter the area of typesetting a bit more complex docs (in 
terms of typo); then you really want to be able to make the difference; in 
that case, the way an author want it typeset is not the same as the 
designers view; it's not a far way from letting the author determine if 
something should be bold/slanted/whatever instead of coding in terms of 
emphasized/important/interesting, or, what we occasionally see, bolder and 
bigger subsubsection heads than sectionheads -)

now, say that there will be:

(1) quotation
(2) blockquotation

with

(1) forcing a new par
(2) behaving the way you want

and both can be set up as usual to act differently, that would solve the 
problem, wouldn't it, since you could either setup up quotation differently 
or use blockquotation. (i'm not going to change the quotation defaults, 
simply because it would break compatibility)

Hans
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