[NTG-context] Re: \par and \startlines

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

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Denis Maier via ntg-context schrieb am 26.04.2024 um 18:10:
>> Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl 
>> <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>> hat am 26.04.2024 17:25 CEST geschrieben:
>> On 4/26/24 15:33, denis.maier@unibe.ch <mailto:denis.maier@unibe.ch> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi, 
>>> I’m trying to typeset a poem from XML, but I can’t figure out how to
>>> make the inbetween key working here. 
>>> As the source is XML, I cannot just add an empty line to start a new
>>> group of lines inside \startlines…\stoplines. I guess, there must be a
>>> command to do that, but \par seems to have no effect here. 
>>> How can this be done? 
>> Hi Denis,
>> I must confess I don’t get which is your actual question.
>> \blank works here and you know that (since you included it in your 
>> code).
>> MkIV with \par works in your sample and LMTX with \par doesn’t.
>> I wonder whether this might be a bug in LMTX.
>> Just in case it might help, 
> Thanks for your answer and sorry for not being clearer. I was just 
> wondering why the \par seems to have no effect. (I first guessed that 
> it might be related to XML, to but then realized it happens with 
> context markup as well. Usually, you won't run into this because an 
> empty line works, but with XML that's not am option.) As you've said, 
> it looks like a bug then.
>

The lines environment treats each line of the input as paragraph by 
adding \par at the end of it and adding another \par makes no difference 
here.

BTW: ConTeXt has a module for poems which can be loaded with 
\usemodule[format].

Wolfgang


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