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From: djb@babypuss.mitre.org (David J. Braunegg)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: \raggedright bug in LaTeX
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Date: 15 Jan 91 14:41:51 GMT
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Based on a response that I received, I was not clear in my last
message about the \raggedright bug.

The bug occurs in *LaTeX*.  I want to get unfilled text with indented
paragraphs.  \raggedright sets the \parindent to 0.0pt, thus
preventing paragraph indentation.  However, from the definition of
\raggedright in lplain, I don't know why:

\def\raggedright{\rightskip\z@ plus2em \spaceskip.3333em \xspaceskip.5em\relax}


The following transcript shows that \parindent gets set to 0.0pt.  You
can also test it with text.

djb@babypuss>\latex
This is TeX, C Version 3.0
LaTeX Version 2.09 <7 Dec 1989>

*\relax

*\documentstyle{article}
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/article.sty
Document Style `article' <16 Mar 88>.
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/art10.sty))
*\begin{document}
No file texput.aux.

*\showthe\parindent
> 15.0pt.
<*> \showthe\parindent
                      
? 

*\raggedright

*\showthe\parindent
> 0.0pt.
<*> \showthe\parindent
                      
? 

*\end{document}
(texput.aux)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.




Trying the same thing in TeX, there is no problem:

djb@babypuss>\tex
This is TeX, C Version 3.0

*\relax

*\showthe\parindent
> 20.0pt.
<*> \showthe\parindent
                      
? 

*\raggedright

*\showthe\parindent
> 20.0pt.
<*> \showthe\parindent
                      
? 

*\bye
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.