From: Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: What's the difference between \dontleavehmode and \leavevmode?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:14:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67f466fc-67df-2a8d-45c5-db6845fa0589@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bad0d31-789d-41a9-0c92-2174ed2d56e7@wxs.nl>
Hans, Wolfgang,
thank you for your speedy reply. However, I still do not know the difference between \leavevmode and \quitvmode. Could you please elaborate?
Cheers, Henri
On 08/18/2016 06:39 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 8/18/2016 5:23 PM, Henri Menke wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> could someone please explain what is the difference between \dontleavehmode and \leavevmode?
>>
>> Internally, I also stumbled upon \quitvmode. Is this a synonym for \leavevmode? It seems to be primitive.
>
> \leavevmode is kind of useless as it can interfere in spacing so we always used \dontleavehmode in context (a macro) that later was added as primitive \quitvmode to luatex
>
> You sometimes need \dontleavehmode to make sure you enter hmode (esp when you start a paragraph with a group or boxed stuff)
>
> (the only two places in context where \leavevmode is used is in rather plain macros that get overloaded later)
>
> Hans
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-18 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-18 15:23 Henri Menke
2016-08-18 15:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-08-18 16:39 ` Hans Hagen
2016-08-18 18:14 ` Henri Menke [this message]
2016-08-18 21:48 ` Hans Hagen
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