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

[Michael J G. <mic...@us...>]

Hi there,

I don't care personally, but '\linebreak' is the correct way to enforce
a linebreak in TeX. A new paragraph is something different.

'\\' is used routinely (and mistakenly) by many people because it's
shorter, and most of the time it works. That patch was triggered by a
"bug report" on the users' list, and the intention was to preemptively
answer further reports.  Anyway, it's "on google" now...

Michael

André Wobst venit, vidit, dixit 06.10.2012 18:39:
> 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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