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diff --git a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luametatex/luametatex-enhancements.tex b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luametatex/luametatex-enhancements.tex index cdea1c69b..d5b491e81 100644 --- a/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luametatex/luametatex-enhancements.tex +++ b/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/luametatex/luametatex-enhancements.tex @@ -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}] |