Dekel Tsur wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:46:08PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> > | In LyX 1.1.6, we used
> > | {\centering Centered text.\par} (1)
> > | In order to have a centered paragraph.
> > | In 1.2.0, we use
> > | \begin{center}
> > | Centered text. (2)
> > | \end{center}
> > |
> > | However, (1) and (2) are not equivalent!!
> > | The latter generate additional space between the paragraph and the
> > | paragraphs below and above it. This is particularly bad if you have a fixed
> > | width tabular cell that contains only one centered paragraph.
> >
> > Hmm... can you raise this question in the tex news group?
> > (comp.text.tex)
>
> I don't think that there is something that can be asked there.
> It is clear that these two commands have different effect.
> However, since we need to maintain compatibility with 1.1.6, we need to use
> \centering (or to redefine the center environment, but this is not a good
> idea as the user might have used it in ERT).
in figures/tables a.s.o always centering is the best choice!
than the caption is nearer to the figure/table ...
for centered paragraphs the environment is often used!
because the additional vertical space makes sense.
Herbert
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