Re: \dontleavehmode and indenting after section (was Re: Context 2006.08.04 released)

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>]

Taco wrote:
> > Right in front of my nose (I was looking in the source files for a
> > line that needed a % at the end).  Is it because tex is still in
> > horizontal mode thanks to the \dontleavehmode, and also because spaces
> > after } are not ignored automatically?
> 
> The answer is yes (the new release has a patch for this by adding
> \ignorespaces at the end of the \section command).

In my plain-TeX days I used \ignorespaces all over in definitions of
\section and \subsection for that purpose.  Eventually that and other
formatting code got too messy (the worst was after I hacked up a \url
macro).  So rather than reinvent many wheels badly, I switched to
ConTeXt.

So thanks for the rapid fixes, to that one and to the overfull hbox
from the indented \strut.

-Sanjoy

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