Am 30.10.2012 um 13:36 schrieb Marco Patzer <home...@lavabit.com>:
> 2012-10-30 Wolfgang Schuster:
>
>>> \midaligned
>>> {\startcombination[2*1]
>>> {\externalfigure[dummy][]}{aaaaaa}
>>> {\externalfigure[dummy][]}{bbbbbb}
>>> \stopcombination}
>>
>> With the new beta you can replace
>>
>> \midaligned{…}
>>
>> with
>>
>> \startmidaligned
>> …
>> \stopmidaligned
>
> I already noted that. I appreciate the movement to a more uniform
> \start…\stop syntax.
Not all people on the list to read the dev list :)
> Just a random thought: Would it be possible or even make sense to
> uniform the syntax even further and maybe merge the functionality
> into \startalignment? At the moment we have one command with an
> argument for alignments:
>
> \startalignment [right|middle|left]
> \input knuth
> \stopalignment
>
> however three different command for boxed alignments (furthermore,
> \startrightaligned works just the opposite of \startalignment[right]):
>
> \startrightaligned
> FooBar
> \stoprightaligned
>
> \startmidaligned
> FooBar
> \stopmidaligned
>
> \startleftaligned
> FooBar
> \stopleftaligned
>
> This might be easy to remember for us who still know the
> \midaligned{} syntax, but I guess for new users it's confusing.
> Additionally, the difference between the commands is unclear. What
> about an interface like this:
>
> \startlinealignment [right|middle|left]
> FooBar
> \stoplinealignment
+1
> Taking this one step further would be to merge both into one
> command:
>
> \startalignment [align=left, alternative=???]
> \input knuth
> \stopalignment
>
> \startalignment [align=left, alternative=!!!]
> FooBar
> \stopalignment
Not sure if this method is too complicated for a few people.
Wolfgang
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