[Logiweb] Ragged right expansion
Klaus Ebbe Grue
grue at diku.dk
Tue Jun 20 10:17:13 CEST 2006
Hi Frederik,
> What's the effect of writing
>
> "[ ragged right expansion ]"
>
> at the beginning of your pyk file? (This is done in the "check" page).
Try to look up the macro expanded version of the check page at the
following url:
http://www.diku.dk/~grue/logiweb/20060417/
home/grue/check/latest/expansion/tex/page.pdf
You will see that the macro expanded version of the check page has a
ragged right margin.
But if you look up the unexpanded version (the 'Body') you will see that
the unexpanded version has a straight right margin.
The purpose is as follows: authors are supposed to invest hours of work in
making the body look good, but the expansion is only used on rare
occasions and for debugging purposes. Furthermore, it is difficult to
control the exact layout of the expansion and it may contain an awful mix
of short and long lines, so it is reasonable just to make it ragged right.
If you look up the definition of 'ragged right expansion' you will see
that it macro expands to a construct which is rendered as '\raggedright'.
Cheers,
Klaus
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