Hello,
I am unhappy with @center because it is both a usefull command one may want
to use anywhere, and a command which nesting may be ambiguous, because it
uses the end of line to be closed. The consequence is that constructs like
@co...@center Centered and in code text}
and
@center A centered t...@footnote{this is
a footnote for centered text} with a footnote
are not easy to interpret, which is a source of headaches for the
implementations and of confusion for users.
What I propose is that @center should only be used in toplevel text
and that any @-command opened in @center should be closed before the
end of line.
To still be able to center some text flexibly I think that a new environment
similar with @flushleft and @flushright (maybe called @flushcenter?) should
be introduced.
Also a bracketed environment could be introduced, to be used in paragraphs
or in @item or in titles or other in-text environments. Like, for example
@centeredtext{Some text centered}
This is less obvious, since the wanted result is not obvious. In html, it
could be a <span> with the apropriate css, but in info it is not obvious what
the result should be. I think that it should be centered relative
with the current location in the line and trigger an end of line.
Maybe this one is not a good idea.
What do you think about that issue? Also TeX has to be considered, I don't
know anything about that part.
--
Pat
