minipage and vertical spacing, parskip

[Oleg Paraschenko]

Hello,

I noticed that my \parskip was ignored by the "minipage" environment.
After some investigations I found that many vertical spacing commands
have a special behaviour inside a minipage, and that the command
"if@minipage" is used quite often.

What is the reason for such behaviour?

Where could I read about it?

By the way, here is how I restore the value of a \parskip inside a
"minipage":

\let\V@oldminipagerestore\@minipagerestore
\def\@minipagerestore{\V@oldminipagerestore
\setlength{\parskip}{X plusY minusZ}}

I'm not sure it is the right way, but I don't see an alternative.

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Oleg Paraschenko olpa@ http://uucode.com/
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