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From: Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Side figure bug in mkiv?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:02:32 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b270fa2-0af3-884a-7663-ae8c68b74449@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN8fp9WOP21Asy=urwN24DCDuM1QfRLe-4xZyCTX+XzK35g6gg@mail.gmail.com>

On 19/07/19 9:36 AM, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 22:30, Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Your formatting obscures the problem because compiling this example
>> works fine.  I think you are starting a new paragraph before {\bf ...}.
>> That is a well-known problem and there are posts about it on the mailing
>> list every once in a while.  The sidefigure mechanism uses \parshape to
>> make the paragraph flow around the figure.
>>
> 
> Very many thanks Henri for your patient explanation, and my apologies for
> inadvertently asking a FAQ. I had thought the effect hasn't happened with
> the same content in mkii but it must have been a happenstance of different
> formatting.

It is maybe an FAQ but I don't think it has been documented anywhere
properly.  I added my explanation to the Wiki page about unexpected
behaviour.

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Unexpected_behavior#The_.E2.80.9Cparagraph_in_a_group.E2.80.9D_problem

Cheers, Henri

> 
> Thanks again for the clear solution.
> 
> Duncan
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-18 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-18 15:18 Duncan Hothersall
2019-07-18 21:29 ` Henri Menke
2019-07-18 21:36   ` Duncan Hothersall
2019-07-18 23:02     ` Henri Menke [this message]
2019-07-19 11:52   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-07-19 14:06     ` Alan Braslau
2019-07-19 18:51       ` Wolfgang Schuster

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