Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:32:50 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i7JCWhKE003402 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:32:44 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7JCJSIY006301; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:19:29 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C485E8.A3C94500" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id i7ICkxqh008608; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:16:33 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 496375 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:16:33 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id i7JCGWRB020456 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:16:32 +0200 Received: from asmtp01.eresmas.com (146-235-81-62.libre.auna.net [62.81.235.146] (may be forged)) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7JCIlIY006115 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:18:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [192.168.108.51] (helo=mx01.eresmas.com) by asmtp01.eresmas.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BxlsT-0000uC-Rm for LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:18:45 +0200 Received: from [80.103.63.173] (helo=PROPIETAFMI1K9) by mx01.eresmas.com with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1BxlsT-0001FO-Hz for LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:18:46 +0200 References: <001f01c48531$4489f4c0$95f86750@PROPIETAFMI1K9> Return-Path: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Aug 2004 12:32:50.0433 (UTC) FILETIME=[A40B5710:01C485E8] x-mime-autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id i7JCGWRB020457 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at proteosys.com X-Spam-Score: 2.2 (++) X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: 0 () Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: \parshape in lists Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:18:40 +0100 Message-ID: A<000601c485e6$acd48e40$ad3f6750@PROPIETAFMI1K9> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: \parshape in lists Thread-Index: AcSF6KRcfAKjgakpSr279iAMbPwExw== From: "Javier Bezos" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4810 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C485E8.A3C94500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks Donald, > Like much of original LaTeX, it is sloppy coding and profligate > waste of TeX features. Then, we could say \parshape is here for "historical reasons". > 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. And for this very reason I was expecting an answer like "well, this way one can do the following wonderful things...", but it seems the reasons are quite simpler ;-). Javier ------_=_NextPart_001_01C485E8.A3C94500 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: \parshape in lists

Thanks Donald,

> Like much of original LaTeX, it is sloppy coding = and profligate
> waste of TeX features.

Then, we could say \parshape is here for = "historical
reasons".

> 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.

And for this very reason I was expecting an = answer
like "well, this way one can do the = following
wonderful things...", but it seems the = reasons
are quite simpler ;-).

Javier

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