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diff --git a/doc/user/bas_par2 b/doc/user/bas_par2 index 2de99e9..f57a0ef 100644 --- a/doc/user/bas_par2 +++ b/doc/user/bas_par2 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ width. Lout works out suitable column widths and performs paragraph breaking automatically, finding an `optimal' break with the method used by the @TeX tex.paragraph @SubIndex { paragraph breaking } -system. It offers nine styles of paragraph breaking, +system. It offers ten styles of paragraph breaking, which we will explore with the aid of this example: @ID @OneRow @Code { It is a truth universally @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ 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 nine styles perform @I { line adjustment }, which +The first two of the ten 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: @@ -129,10 +129,11 @@ recommended way is to separate them by an @Code "~" symbol: 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. @PP -The last three styles differ from the first five in breaking the +The last four styles differ from the first six in breaking the paragraph at the points where it is broken in the original input: lines. @Index { @Code lines paragraph breaking style } clines. @Index { @Code clines paragraph breaking style } +olines. @Index { @Code olines paragraph breaking style } rlines. @Index { @Code rlines paragraph breaking style } @IndentedList @LI @Tab @@ -171,9 +172,21 @@ in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. }} } +@LI @Tab + @Fmta { @Col 6c @Wide @Code A ! @Col 7c @Wide B } +{ +@Rowa + A { "olines @Break ..." } + B { olines @Break { +It is a truth universally +acknowledged, that a single man +in possession of a good fortune, +must be in want of a wife. +}} +} @EndList -The lines are left-justified, centred, or right-justified with respect -to each other in the same way as for the ragged styles. +The lines are left-justified, centred, right-justified, or outdented +with respect to each other in the same way as for the ragged styles. @PP When using the @Code lines style, there are some fine points concerning the proper use of white space. Consider this example: @@ -233,9 +246,9 @@ Serves to'advance an honest minde. } as desired. @PP -When using {@Code lines}, {@Code clines}, and {@Code "rlines @Break"}, -blank lines are respected and ordinarily appear at their full height. -However, it often looks better to give somewhat +When using {@Code lines}, {@Code clines}, {@Code rlines}, and +{@Code "olines @Break"}, blank lines are respected and ordinarily appear +at their full height. However, it often looks better to give somewhat blanklinescale. @Index { @Code blanklinescale } less than this to blank lines. For this there is the {@Code blanklinescale} option to {@Code "@Break"}: |