Re: Trouble with paragraph duplication

Martin Senft :
> That is true, but I am still confused that no paragraph breaking takes
> place in this case. Also, when I use the @Wide command inside the
> @Lorem definition or around its invocation, It breaks as expected.
> However, when I use @Wide around @Lorem @Lorem, I get the same error
> as without using @Wide. What is the rule here that decides when to
> break lines in the contents of the @Lorem definition?
> 

The way I understand it, you are trying to put 2 objects side by side.
They are too large for that, causing the error. If now you resize them,
individually, using @Wide, they might fit (depending on the width you
specify).
Putting @Wide _around_ the dual invocation of @Lorem is reducing the
width available to the already too large juxtaposition. Why should it
get rid of the error? If anything it would create a problem if there
wasn't already one.


> Martin
> 
> 2012/2/21 Jeff Kingston <[email protected]>:
> > OK, there is also a problem further down:
> >
> >  @Text @Begin
> >  @Lorem
> >  @Lorem
> >  @End @Text
> >
> > The writer of this has treated @Lorem as though it is a macro
> > which returns a sequence of tokens rather than a definition
> > which returns an object.  This will produce two copies of
> > @Lorem side by side within a paragraph, in the same way that
> >
> >  @Text @Begin
> >  lorikeet
> >  lorikeet
> >  @End @Text
> >
> > would produce two copies of lorikeet side by side within
> > a paragraph.  See the User's Guide, Section 1.3.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 08:31:10PM +0100, Martin Senft wrote:
> >> 2012/2/20 Jeff Kingston <[email protected]>:
> >> > Forgetting the // is a well-known Lout gotcha.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Good point, I haven't noticed that. However, fixing this does not
> >> remove the paragraph breaking issue in "def @Lorem { @PP ... }" for
> >> me.
> >>
> >> Martin
> 

-- 
Pierre