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authorHans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>2021-07-30 01:27:40 +0200
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@@ -1929,6 +1929,15 @@ kerns, should be handled in the input or macro package because there is no way w
can predict the expected behaviour. In fact, the \lpr {linedir} is just a
convenience extra which could also have been implemented using node list parsing.
+Directions are complicated by the fact that they often need to work over groups
+so a separate grouping related stack is used. A side effect is that there can be
+paragraphs with only a local par node followed by direction synchronization
+nodes. Paragraphs like that are seen as empty paragraphs and therefore ignored.
+Because \type {\noindent} doesn't inject anything but a \type {\indent} injects
+an box, paragraphs with only an indent and directions are handles and paragraphs
+with content. When indentation is normalized a paragraph with an indentation
+skip is seen as content.
+
\stopsubsection
\startsubsection[title={Normalizing lines}]