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@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ breakzzz.sym @Index { @Code "@Break" symbol }
This example causes every paragraph in the following object to be
broken using the @Code ragged style, of which more below.
@PP
-The first two of the ten styles perform @I { line adjustment }, which
+The first two styles perform @I { line adjustment }, which
line.adjustment @Index { line adjustment }
means that they enlarge the spaces between the objects making up each
-line so as to fill the lines completely:
+line except the last so as to fill the lines completely:
@IndentedList
@LI @Tab
@Fmta { @Col 6c @Wide @Code A ! @Col 7c @Wide B }
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ is like @Code "outdent" except the resulting lines are not adjusted.
If you have a few words that must be kept together on one line, the
preventing. @Index { preventing line breaks }
keeping. @Index { keeping things on one line }
-recommended way is to separate them by an @Code "~" symbol:
+recommended way is to separate them by the @Code "~" symbol:
@ID @Code "According to Prof.~Jones, the effect of ..."
It's best not to bother about this until you actually get a bad line
break, since chances are good that the words will fall on one line anyway.
@@ -208,10 +208,10 @@ Or to keep off envies stinging,
Serves to'advance an honest minde.
}
This style is the only one for which it is useful to indent individual
-lines in the input; as the result shows, such indents will be
-respected. However, Lout's rule that only white space separating objects
-affects the result (Section {@NumberOf spaces}) still holds, which means
-that indenting the first line is not effective:
+input lines; as the result shows, such indents will be respected.
+However, Lout's rule that only white space separating objects
+affects the result (Section {@NumberOf spaces}) still holds, so
+indenting the first line is not effective:
@ID @OneRow @Code {
"@IndentedDisplay lines @Break @I {"
" And finde"
@@ -225,12 +225,12 @@ produces
What winde
Serves to'advance an honest minde.
}
-This may seem awkward at first, but actually it is extremely convenient
-because you don't have to worry about whether the first line of the
-paragraph should appear on a new line as above, or immediately after
-the opening brace: space at that point does not separate two objects,
-so it has no effect. The indent can be obtained by
-starting the first line with an empty object (Section {@NumberOf empty}):
+This may seem awkward, but actually it is very convenient, because
+you don't have to worry about whether the first line of the paragraph
+should appear on a new line as above, or immediately after the opening
+brace: space at that point does not separate two objects, so it has
+no effect. The indent can be obtained by starting the first line
+with an empty object (Section {@NumberOf empty}):
@ID @OneRow @Code {
"@IndentedDisplay lines @Break @I {"
"{} And finde"