Friday, November 4, 2005 Ken Mantle wrote:

> I swear WordPerfect must have a patent on this feature,
> because I've never seen it documented or in any other word
> processor.  Why is it not possible for Openoffice, Word,
> etc to allow justifying some text on the left margine,
> some in the center, and some on the right margine all on
> the same line?

This is extremely easy to do in WordPerfect and in TeX
because of their token-driven formatting. Object-oriented
formatting à la Word and Writer needs some clumsy tricks to
obtain the same result. The most common ways to do it are
via one-row-three-columns tables, or tabs. For the headers
and footers, you already have three placeholders.

And yes, this is just One More Reason why token formatting
is *much* better than OO formatting.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta


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