[NTG-context] setupformulas: make indentnext=auto the default?

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Wed Oct 4 10:11:25 CEST 2006


Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>
>   
>> The default for setupformulas is indentnext=no, at least from a couple
>> experiments and this line in core-mat.tex (in version 2006.08.08):
>>
>>   \c!indentnext=\v!no,
>>
>> What's the view on changing it to indentnext=auto, which seems
>> intuitive at least if one is used to TeX or LaTeX?  From the archives,
>> it seems like 'auto' was the default a few years ago, but maybe there
>> was reason to change it to 'no'.
>>     
>
> I do not know why 'indentnext' was changed to 'no'. I would also like 
> the default to be changed to 'auto'. However, I do not know if it 
> breaks backwards compatibility of someone else's existing project.
>
> You can ofcourse change it in your cont-sys.tex file, but remember to 
> add it to your environment file if you want to share your documents 
> with others.
>   
normally i have no problems with changes that make thinsg look better (improvements in macros) 

however, this is a functional change and that's not going to happen

if a lot of users want it, we can consider making some styles that use (and/or comment) different defaults, 

Hans 

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