Re: strange dependency between cbox and whitespace?

[Stefan Wachter <stefan.wachter@gmx.de>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 17:57 19/02/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I came across the following behaviour: cboxes seem to suppress white 
>> space in certain conditions.
>>
>> In the following example there is no whitespace output between 
>> paragraph no. 2 und 3. Yet, if I change \setupwhitespace to 'none' or 
>> if I do not enclose the paragraphs in cboxes then the whitespaces 
>> between the paragraphs appear as expected.
>>
>> Does anyone know a workaround for this 'strange' behaviour of cboxes?
>>
>> Thanks for your attention,
>> --Stefan
>>
>>
>> \setupoutput[pdftex]
>> \setupinteraction[openaction={firstpage,FitHeight},state=start]
>> \setupwhitespace[small]
>> \setupblank[100pt]
>> \def\Para#1{\cbox{#1 \dorecurse{10}{this is some paragraph text}}\par}
>> \starttext
>> \Para{1}
>> \blank[big]
>> \Para{2}
>> \blank[medium]
>> \Para{3}
>> \blank[small]
>> \Para{4}
>> \stoptext
> 
> 
> has to do with the way tex handles vbox/vtop's (tex does not have dual 
> baseline boxes)
> 
> \def\Para#1{\cbox{#1 \dorecurse{10}{\begstrut this is some paragraph 
> text \endstrut}}\par}
> 
> or something:
> 
> \long \def\Para#1#2\EndPar{\startalign[middle]#1 #2\stopalign}

Thanks for the reply. I am using the \startalign option now.