Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:18:39 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i7K0IaKE009343 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:18:37 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7K09tBp028520; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:09:55 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C4864B.3DC1D980" 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 i7JKfeUV008608; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:07:00 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 499022 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:06:59 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 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 i7K06xRB030710 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:06:59 +0200 Received: from mutant.triumf.ca (mutant.triumf.ca [142.90.112.22]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7K09EIY025334 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:09:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from asnd@localhost) by mutant.triumf.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA03382; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:14:54 -0700 In-Reply-To: Javier Bezos's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:18:40 +0200" Lines: 17 Organization: TRIUMF: Canada's national meson facility References: <001f01c48531$4489f4c0$95f86750@PROPIETAFMI1K9> <000601c485e6$acd48e40$ad3f6750@PROPIETAFMI1K9> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Aug 2004 00:18:39.0118 (UTC) FILETIME=[3DD3DAE0:01C4864B] User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 X-Authentication-Warning: mutant.triumf.ca: asnd set sender to asnd@triumf.ca using -f X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at proteosys.com X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: 0 () Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: \parshape in lists Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:14:54 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: \parshape in lists Thread-Index: AcSGSz3+WDO2VPqhSsu0snBis1vyxA== From: "Donald Arseneau" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4811 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4864B.3DC1D980 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Javier Bezos writes: > > 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". Others may have a different view of the situation :-) It has become the de-facto interface for interacting with the list indents, so changing it would cause much breakage. Did I mention that \parshape has the advantage of automatically applying to the equations? Yes. Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4864B.3DC1D980 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: \parshape in lists

Javier Bezos <jbezos@WANADOO.ES> writes:

> > 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".

Others may have a different view of the situation = :-)

It has become the de-facto interface for interacting = with the
list indents, so changing it would cause much = breakage.

Did I mention that \parshape has the advantage of = automatically
applying to the equations?  Yes.

Donald = Arseneau           = ;            =    asnd@triumf.ca

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