Re:: \filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.

Re:: \filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.

[John Culleton]

Taking the last question first, when I switched over to 
eplain and makeindex the error of my ways became 
apparent--- a spurious space in an \index statement which 
in makeindex sorts that item ahead of the letter "A". The 
Context reaction to the error was different. But it was 
clearly user error.  

 Since I have a job to get out the door this week, and 
tomorrow is Friday, I will continue with makeindex. I will 
also  use the eplain macro for the TOC. An answer to my 
earlier question in re. spacing in the TOC would be 
welcomed however for future reference. 

I will try \filbreak and see if anything breaks.  

To make the eplain macros coexist with Context requires 
commenting out one line in eplain.tex:
%\def^^L{\par}%

What this line does I have no idea. 
-- 
John Culleton
Able Typesetters and Indexers
http://wexfordpress.com

Re: Re:: \filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.

[Hans Hagen]

At 20:24 01/05/2004, you wrote:
>On Thursday 29 April 2004 10:10 pm, John Culleton wrote:
>
> > To make the eplain macros coexist with Context requires
> > commenting out one line in eplain.tex:
> > %\def^^L{\par}%
> >
> > What this line does I have no idea.
>
>Now I am told that It converts end of page characters (^L)
>to \par statements, and the extra ^ has something to do
>with making the statement non-outer. The error when using
>eplain with Context involves a category code problem which
>I don't comprehend but accept as gospel from those who do.
>A patch has been suggested by Karl Berry and will be
>implemented in eplain.tex in due course.

hm, the ^^ just tells tex that it's a control character

the definition indeed makes the command non-outer (simply because no \outer 
prefix is used) as well as makes sure that

some text
<formfeed>
some text

is treated as two paragraphs

Hans  

Re: Re:: \filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 10:10 pm, John Culleton wrote:

> To make the eplain macros coexist with Context requires
> commenting out one line in eplain.tex:
> %\def^^L{\par}%
>
> What this line does I have no idea.

Now I am told that It converts end of page characters (^L) 
to \par statements, and the extra ^ has something to do 
with making the statement non-outer. The error when using 
eplain with Context involves a category code problem which 
I don't comprehend but accept as gospel from those who do. 
A patch has been suggested by Karl Berry and will be 
implemented in eplain.tex in due course.

Almost all of the functonality of eplain is also provided by  
Context so the need to use both is rare. There are a few 
circumstances where the combination makes sense, such as 
indexing where eplain plus makeindex  offers some 
additional formatting flexibility, at the cost of an extra 
step or two.  
 
-- 
John Culleton
Able Typesetters and Indexers
http://wexfordpress.com