\lec does not work well

[kohlhase]

I am using the \lec (line end comment) macro all the time in my slides. It is defined by

\ExplSyntaxOn
\def\__omtext_lec#1{\textcolor{green}{#1}}
\cs_new_protected:Npn \lec #1 {
  \strut\hfil\strut\null\hfill(\__omtext_lec{#1})
}
\cs_new_protected:Npn \nlex #1 {
  \textcolor{green}{{\sl #1}}  
}

\cs_new_protected:Npn \nlcex #1 {
  *\;\textcolor{green}{{\sl #1}}  
}
\ExplSyntaxOff

in MiKoMH/meta-inf/lib/mikoconvenience.sty.

But in the slides we do not see the line end behavior we get

from

... in class.\lec{you need practice}

I understand that \hfill and friends are problematic in non-paginated documents, ... But all of the \lec are in slides which are fixed-width.
\lec is not even polite enough to leave a blank, ...
I think we need to fix this, possibly by re-implementing \lec in TeX.

[Jazzpirate]

"But all of the \lec are in slides which are fixed-width." <- they are not in HTML (responsiveness and all that) :) And even if they were, the offset to the rest of the text depends on the length of the corresponding line, which is dependent on the line-breaking mechanism of the browser... so I don't see any way to get \lec to actually be right-aligned.

We can of course reimplement it, but I don't have a good idea of what it should do

[kohlhase]

well, can't it just be a <span style="float:right">....</span>? That would solve the problem.

[Jazzpirate]

I'll have to try, but I'm almost sure that "float" does not work with display:inline... (if it does, that would solve a few of my other problems with \hfill et al as well, so I'd be very surprised if I didn't try everything in that direction...)

[kohlhase]

I think that if float: is given, the display:inline is change to display:block automatically or so.

[kohlhase]

At breakfast we discussed that maybe the best way forward is to reconceptualize \lec into one short macro (\lec) and a long one, the first on is for the case where we know that there is enough space (in the PDF) and the second one takes a dimension argument and just makes a minipage of that width of the contents.
That might work better with the float:right in the html