From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \setupfloatcaption align=
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:59:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d07425f5-2109-4a65-f11c-9cd3cae86ce5@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180412105601.1508b219@poo.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
On 4/12/2018 6:56 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:11:08 +0200
> Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> On 4/12/2018 5:54 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:09:58 +0200
>>> Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> tolerance in text/par alignment is just that: adding tolerance and
>>>> it is bound to align and it only kicks in in par building and
>>>> there is not always a par involved
>>>
>>> Why does a float caption not build a paragraph? Does a \framed
>>> sometimes not build a paragraph?
>>
>> it's not framed ... framed is advanced in the sense that it can
>> analyze the build paragraph for the natural width
>>
>> float captions look at the size oif the float plus some overshoot ...
>> unrelated mechanisms
>
> Maybe, a float caption *should* be a frame?
it's not wise to change that now
> And if it isn't, I am asking why would a caption not be treated as a
> paragraph?
because tex then tends to make it the width of the whole text so now (by
default we measure and decide to go hbox or vbox
Hans
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-11 20:13 Alan Braslau
2018-04-11 20:41 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-11 20:51 ` Alan Braslau
2018-04-12 8:09 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-12 15:54 ` Alan Braslau
2018-04-12 16:11 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-12 16:56 ` Alan Braslau
2018-04-12 16:59 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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