Re: Displayed material, again

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:25 PM 3/10/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>to do as much of the job as possible, by itself. I therefore wish
>to urge Hans to implement a new indentnext option, "auto", which
>should give a behaviour similar to the one shown on this example:

btw, here are shorter defs:

\def\startdisplay
   {\relax\ifvmode\else\endgraf\noindent\fi\ignorespaces}

\def\stopdisplay
   {\par\doifnextcharelse\par\donothing\noindent}

watch the \relax (prevents lookahead) and \doifnextcharelse

anyway,

isn't a \stopdisplay followed by an empty line still supposed to be a 
display?, so the full model is:

\startparagraph

   text or not

   \startdisplay

   \stopdisplay

    text or not

\stopparagraph

the startparagraph and stopparagraph can be kind of automatic, but that's 
just an added bonus for those who want to use empty lines as signals 
(something which is not common, for instance in xml where proper tagging 
takes place).

Hans
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