Re: [PyX-devel] [PATCH] advertise usage of \linebreak rather than \newline

[André W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi Michael,

We just discussed this at a pyx dev weekend. Sorry for coming back to this email after such a long time of silence. While I totally agree with you in that "\\" to be considered harmful. However, I'm rather unsure whether \linebreak is the proper solution. I always suggest to use real paragraphs to generate breaks, as it creates separate vertical material in TeX. While I do understand your intention, I'm not sure whether we should document your solution. As it's a TeX problem, we may better not comment on that at all rather than proposing a wrong solution.

Best,


André


Am 22.07.2011 um 14:26 schrieb Michael J Gruber:

> The widespread use of \newline (in the incarnation \\) for enforcing
> linebreaks causes many problems with the alignment of parboxes.
> \linebreak is the correct way to force a line break without destroying
> alignment.
> ---
> examples/text/halign.txt |    4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/examples/text/halign.txt b/examples/text/halign.txt
> index a9d15e3..b1453d0 100644
> --- a/examples/text/halign.txt
> +++ b/examples/text/halign.txt
> @@ -23,3 +23,7 @@ well, when you do not create a parbox.
> !! Note that the alignment features are implemented in such a way, that they work
> in both, TeX and LaTeX mode. Furthermore, you can always influence the
> alignment of the box contents by appropriate TeX and LaTeX commands as well.
> +
> +!! If you want to enforce line breaks in a parbox use `\linebreak`, not `\newline` (which
> +is equivalent to `\\`). `\linebreak` makes sure that horizontal alignment is preserved
> +throughout the text box.
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