dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/16/91)
In article <1991Mar14.194124.18866@rice.edu>, dorai@tone.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram) writes: > Indeed. BTW, most of the books (novels) I've seen that were printed > in a certain country [famous for its books!] appear to favor a > do-nothing paragraph separating style, i.e., neither indentation nor > vertical space. > Thus, the only aid to recognizing a new paragraph is that the trailing > line of the previous paragraph doesn't quite make it to the right > margin. (Ergo, this style will not work for raggedright text, hence I > can't demonstrate it in this article.) > Strangely enough, the result is very pleasing, and not misleading, as > graeme@otago's reasoning might suggest, since care is taken to ensure > that a sentence that finishes a paragraph doesn't ever end on the > right margin. (In LaTeX, this can be accomplished by ending all > paragraphs with a ~\mbox{ }.) (A further guideline seems to be never > start a sentence on a page unless it starts a paragraph.) Just felt the need to push my traditional "never do procedurally what you can do structurally" argument: The need for the mbox could be alleviated by setting \parfillskip to say 1em plus 1fill. This guarantees at least 1em of space at the end of a paragraph. One could also set penalties to encourage TeX to leave widow lines at the top of the page to make clear that a near-top-of-page paragraph is unambigously marked. Personally, I prefer the traditional no space + indent paragraph marking. Victor, the arguments about space around a list also relate to space around a displayed equation. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.