[OS X TeX] parindent in asparaenum

[Alain Schremmer]

Herb Schulz wrote:

>On 12/4/04 12:49 PM, "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>why is it "a bit more ``LaTeX.''"?
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>but you lose some error checking, etc.
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I don't think that, at my level, this will matter.

>>But why the % at the end? It seems to work without it.
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>In this case it doesn't make much difference but spaces after a `}' at the
>end of a line count and can lead to unexpected spacing problems.
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OK. I will keep the %.

>>(4) And while I am at it, why does \; create a vspace instead of the
>>hspace I expected?
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>Hmmm... Don't really know but I'd guess that at the beginning of a paragraph
>you're in a vertical mode (i.e., TeX is going to glue together paragraph
>boxes on top of each other) and until you enter horizontal mode (these are
>TeX terms) where boxes are glued together horizontally to form words,
>sentences and a paragraph the space ends up a vertical space. Just
>``guessing'' here though.
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Your explanation sounds good to me and, in any case, your "guessing" is 
bound to be a lot better than mine

Regards
--schremmer
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