On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:55:01 Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> > PS: Your opinion is not so humble, and I do not really see the rational
> > why indentnext=no is the default for most things* rather than
> > indentnext=auto.
>
> Below is my understanding of ConTeXt's design principle (Hans or Taco
> should correct me if I am wrong). Content should be separate from
> presentation. This means that indentation should be a function of
> semantics, and not of how you format your source. So
>
> some text ...
> \startitemize
> \item
> \item
> \stopitemize
> some more text
>
> and
>
> some text
>
> \startitemize
> \item
> \item
> \stopitemize
>
> some more text ...
>
> should give the same result. If you want an item group that does not start
> a paragraph, and an item group that starts a new paragraph, then they are
> two different objects and you should define two different environments for
> them.
>
> \defineitemgroup[spitemize] %single para
> [indentnext=no,
> before=\blank,
> after=\blank]
>
> \defineitemgroup[mpitemize] %multi para
> [indentnext=yes,
> before={\blank[big]},
> after={\blank[big]}]
>
>
> Then you can use \startspitemize or \startmpitemize dependening on what you
> want. The way you format the source does not matter.
>
> Aditya
That is really "ugly": different cases of itemize...
If indeed the design principle that you describe is true,
then I would *strongly* argue that one should get rid of
a blank line separating paragraphs and *require* the use of \par
I don't totally agree with this, as I think that the document source
should look as simple as possible, and paragraphs separated by blank
lines do a lot to make the text readable, more so than
\par
A new paragraph.
Alan
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