On Fri, 08 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 06:00 PM 3/7/2002 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>>So, to resolve both of these I did a bit of playing around with TeX
>>primitives and came up with the following code:
[...]
>> \setbox\StepDividerBox=\hbox to \hsize{%
>> \hfil \blackrule[width=.3\hsize,height=.5pt,depth=.3pt] \hfil
> ^ no
> space
> here
I am curious -- why should I avoid the space between the \blackrule and
the \hfil? As far as I could tell it worked just fine with the space
and, as far as I know, TeX should be in the space skipping state when it
completes the execution of the \blackrule...
So, what have I missed? :)
[...]
> \def\StepDivider
[...]
> will probbaly also do,
Nope. That also had the 'squeeze the text to nothing' effect. You can
grab a copy of the PDF file from
<https://lists.rimspace.net/context-sample.pdf>
Daniel
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