Thursday, June 27, 2002 Idris S Hamid wrote:

ISH> Dear gang,

ISH> For a paragraph that gives an overfull \hbox I need to declare some looseness. 
ISH> I tried

ISH> \bgroup
ISH> \setuptolerance[stretch]
ISH> <paragraph>
ISH> \egroup

ISH> but that did not do anything. 

ISH> Is there a declaration instead of setup that I can use for this kind of 
ISH> situation?

I think you MUST end the paragraph with a \par or a blank line
BEFORE the group ends, or TeX will discard the changes
you've made to the formatting parameters. (BTW, ConTeXt has its
own grouping commands, \start ... \stop.)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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