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Re: bug or my ignorance?


From: Ulrich Lauther
Subject: Re: bug or my ignorance?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:56:03 +0200

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:31:56AM +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > So, why behaves the diversion (for me) unexpected, or what
> > am I doing wrong?
> 
> Diversions contain text that has been formatted and output.
> The partially collected line that exists when you terminate the
> diversion has not been output, so it does not become part of
> the diversion.  To achieve what you (probably) want, insert a
> ".br" before you end the diversion, this flushes the partially
> collected line to the output (and thus into the diversion).
> 
Thanks a lot, the ".br" does it. When I use a macro instead of a diversion,
the formatting seems to take place not until the macro is called. Right?

        ulrich lauther



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