Re: line break after hbox or framed

Thank you Wolfgang, your solution works.

What is a „horizontal mode“? I didn’t find any information about 
neither „horizontal mode“ nor \dontleavehmode in the Wiki.

Best regards

On 7 Apr 2026, at 12:08, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Am 07.04.2026 um 04:15 schrieb Emanuel Han:
>> I observed that there is a line break after hbox or framed, if these 
>> elements are at the beginning of a paragraph (which is not the case 
>> when they are not at the beginning of the paragraph). How can I 
>> circumvent this, so that there is no line break?
>>
>> \definehbox[fiveem][5em]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \hboxfiveem{A} text \hboxfiveem{A} \hboxfiveem{A}.
>>
>> \framed{B} text \framed{B} \framed{B}.
>>
>> \stoptext
>
> You need \dontleavehmode before the first box to switch to horizontal 
> mode.
>
> \definehbox[fiveem][5em]
>
> \starttext
>
> \dontleavehmode\hboxfiveem{A} text \hboxfiveem{A} \hboxfiveem{A}.
>
> \dontleavehmode\framed{B} text \framed{B} \framed{B}.
>
> %\dontleavehmode\horizontalbox[width=5em]{A} text 
> \horizontalbox[width=5em]{A} \horizontalbox[width=5em]{A}
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
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