Hi, in my opinion we should not change anything to make \\ work with character protrusion. \\ is used to end a line at an arbitrary position, not at the right margin. When one says '...foo\\', he/she doesn't expect that 'foo' ends up exactly at the right margin, but anywhere. In the below case, I think '\break' should be used instead of '\\' Regards, Thanh On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:52:05PM +0100, Hartmut Henkel wrote:

Hi,

this is also an observation by Peter Muthesius on de.comp.text.tex: A LaTeX \\ line ending will not get the rightmost character in that line protruded. Reason is that \\ puts a glue_node "width 0pt plus 1fil" at the end of the line, which is not skipped by the cp_skipable macro in hz.ch.

Now, should one add also

or ((type(#) = glue_node) and (width(glue_ptr(#)) = 0))

to the cp_skipable() macro? Then there would be "correct" protrusion also with lines ended by LaTeX \\. But as the glue provided by \\ has some fil component, this would influence also positioning of text with protrusion component on the line if \hfil is used on the same line. Here some pdfLaTeX example:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \pdfprotrudechars=1 \tracingall \rpcode\font`\-=1000 \begin{document} Es kommt eine Zeile mit hfil \hfil Ein-\\ \hrule Es kommt eine Zeile mit hfill \hfill Ein-\\ \hrule \pdfprotrudechars=0 Es kommt eine Zeile mit hfil \hfil Ein-\\ \end{document}

With normal pdflatex the 2nd "Ein-" will not protrude into the margin, but it would if the above line is inserted in hz.ch. However one sees the side effect, that the positioning of the "Ein-" is affected in the \hfil case, depending on whether protrusion is activated or not.

Any idea what would be the right behavior?

Regards, Hartmut _______________________________________________ ntg-pdftex mailing list ntg-pdftex@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-pdftex