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Re: OT: Rant



dman wrote:

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right | > Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a | > bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up. | | For those who don't grok this, look at the top of any man page: | | man(1) Manual pager utils man(1)

Ahh, ok.

This is not what "left justified" or "center justified" or "right
justified" means.  Those terms apply to the entire line (more often
though it applies to an entire paragraph).  Actually, "justified" is a
separate term and means that both the left and right edges of the the
paragraph are even.  The others are properly "alignments", but common
use has labeled them "justification".


Ah. Bad use of language on my part. You're right.


That is a tabular layout.  You can achieve this with tab stops or a
table or a multi-column section of the document.



Yeah, I might have to resort to that; it's just that WP's method was so easy. Type your text, hit Ctrl-F7, type the centered text, hit Alt-F7, type the rightmost text, and you're done.


-D






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