From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \startalignment
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:29:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569545FD.2030903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160112110715.34764b4a@cea.fr>
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> Alan BRASLAU <mailto:alan.braslau@cea.fr>
> 12. Januar 2016 um 19:07
> Hello,
>
> Jean-Michel pointed out to me the following curiosity:
>
> \starttext
> \input tufte
> \startalignment[middle]
> \input ward
> \stopalignment
> \input tufte
> \stoptext
>
> The startalignment applies to the preceding text, too. Strange...
It’s a normal behaviour for TeX, the question is should \startalignment
end the previous paragraph or not.
> I never noticed this before as I have the habit of coding
> \startalignment\stopalignment blocks set-off with leading and trailing
> blank lines for better readability. But such practice could lead to
> undesired results. Consider the following example:
>
> \setupwhitespace [big]
>
> \starttext
> \input tufte
>
> \startalignment[middle]
> \input ward
> \stopalignment
> \input dawkins
> \stoptext
>
> So \stopalignment implicitly imposes a \par.
> If I were to omit the blank line before \startalignment so that no big
> whitespace be included before the centered block, the tufte text will
> get middle aligned. Also, perhaps I might not wish for the dawkins text
> to be separated by a big whitespace, logically as in:
You can use \startpacked … \stoppacked to suppress blank lines inserted
by \setupwhitespace.
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 18:07 \startalignment Alan BRASLAU
2016-01-12 18:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2016-01-12 20:07 ` \startalignment Hans Hagen
2016-01-12 20:43 ` \startalignment Alan BRASLAU
2016-01-12 21:18 ` \startalignment Hans Hagen
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