Re: no @image at start of paragraph

[Gavin Smith]

On 17 December 2015 at 21:02, Per Bothner <address@hidden> wrote:
> If that is desired, the document author can always write a blank line
> after the @image.

It would be nasty to implement because you wouldn't know when you saw
the @image whether it should be part of a new paragraph or not. Making
an empty line afterwards special would require looking forwards in the
input for a blank line, which may not be easy if there are several
sources of input, namely macro expansion and file inclusion. Moreover,
such a syntax wouldn't allow specifying a paragraph containing an
image and nothing else, which would be an alternative interpretation
of an @image command on a line by itself.

> Right now there is an asymmetry: An @image at the end of a paragraph's
> text (with no intervening blank line) is part of the paragraph,
> but @image at the beginning of a paragraph's text is not.  This
> seems inconsistent, and eliminates a useful option (without using
> a kludge).