Re: Fun = Signals + Buffers + Insets

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
JL> OK, I'll bite: give me *one* example of nesting a paragraph into
JL> another paragraph where you will not need some container around
JL> it, to make precise the type (footnote), the size (parbox) or
JL> whatever.

Lars> I think a paragraph should be an inset.  As as all insets it
Lars> needs to have a mask describing where in the structure it can be
Lars> used. 

What are the places where a paragraph cannot be used?

Lars> A parbox should contain a paragraph, not a list of
Lars> insets. 

A parbox should contain a list of paragraphs, like a document.

Lars> Same with footnotes, a footnote contains a list of
Lars> paragraphs. It is perhaps a special kind of inset, but most of
Lars> its interface well be equal to other insets.

But a paragraph itself is a list of insets (text or others). Why would
it have to be an inset too? 

JMarc