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=?iso-8859-15?Q?Morten_H=F8gholm?= <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:40:04 +0200, Javier Bezos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > in LaTeX of \parshape is in \list and I wonder why
> > it was preferred to other possibilities like \hangindent
> > or \leftskip/rightskip. Any ideas?
Like much of original LaTeX, it is sloppy coding and profligate
waste of TeX features. I think lists could have been defined
better using \leftskip/\rightskip, and that would allow safe
reprocessing of page contents using \lastbox. The difference
is that equation environments would need to set a \displayindent
explicitly, instead of TeX setting it for them.
> Using
> \leftskip\@totalleftmargin
> works fine until you start issuing \raggedright etc.
\raggedright already maintains \@rightskip for the benefit of the
current list implementation. It would be no more complex (just slightly
different) for a different list. The current definition is extremely
obscure, ugly, and fragile in its redefinition of \par, needed to
reset \parshape settings every paragraph.
Donald Arseneau [log in to unmask]
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