Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure[left] again!

2003-08-14 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:31:44 +0100
"Duncan Hothersall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Interestingly, it remains broken even if the \bf isn't there, just the
> open and close braces. So presumably this is something to do with the
> expansion of what comes after the \placefigure?

I ran into this also and wrote:

>I've found that it has to do with the content of my text. Any paragraph
>beginning with a block does not flow properly. The best workaround I
>have found is to insert a \strut at the beginning of the text where it
>starts with a block.

To which Hans replied:

> right, this is a known weakness: if you start a par with a \command,
> you may end up with yes/no indentation or some everypar interference
> (can for instance be due to the fact that the command can start a
> group and aftergroup things can be messed up), your \strut solution is
> ok (\indent\ noindent or \dontleavehmode is also ok), since they start
> the paragraph

So begin your text with:

\strut {\bf }

or one of the other commands. \strut is a zero-width character.

-Bill
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RE: [NTG-context] \placefigure[left] again!

2003-08-12 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Bill wrote:

> So begin your text with:
>
> \strut {\bf }
>
> or one of the other commands. \strut is a zero-width character.

Excellent, thanks. I had experimented with just {}, and even \,\! but the
problem remained. This solves it, thanks a lot.

Duncan
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