Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Alfredo> With John's patch it's forbidden to enter two consecutive > Alfredo> newlines (the second does nothing), but you can obtain all > Alfredo> newlines you want by other methods. It seems weird. > > I agree with that. > > Alfredo> I think that we must choose between: > > Alfredo> - forbidding 2 consecutive newlines consistently > > This is what the old DEPM tried to do.
Sorry, I meant 2 consecutive empty pars, not 2 consecutive newlines (so 3 consecutive newlines). The old code forbids 1 empty par apart from the cursor location, John's code forbids (somewhat inconsistently, and that was my criticism) two consecutive empty pars. (innocent question) John, is it too hard to forbid them consistently? > That's not good, since people will wonder why their nicely formatted > title page does not come out as expected. Add the same problem with > spaces (people trying to add spaces to do centering) and you get a lot > of confusion. I know, but I think that forbidding 2 empty pars _inconsistently_ will add to the confusion. > The suggestion of trying to remember what is currently happening > (horizontal cursor) seems intriguing and interesting to me. > Unfortunately, I do not have time to try it out now, since I spend my > time on 1.3.1cvs. The patch was good only to show what it feels like anyway. I don't know how hard would it be to solve all little (?) arising problems. John's patch seems to be in a quasi-working state. Alfredo
