Re: OT: Rant

[Eric G.Miller <egm2@jps.net>]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:51:11 -0000 (GMT), (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 24-Jan-02 Dan Griswold wrote:
> > dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes:
> >> The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW).  (I
> >> don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a
> >> center environment.  Nope, I just tried it.  \begin{center} starts a
> >> new paragraph (or at least a line))
> >> 
> > 
> > The \tabular environment is what you would use for this.
> 
> This looks like over-kill! The \tabular envoronment
> is heavy.
> 
> I don't know TeX well enough to know whether this is the
> only option, but I would be surprised if it did not somewhere
> have the equivalent of groff's ".tl":
> 
>   .tl 'lefthand string'centre string'righthand string'
> 
> which outputs a line with "lefthand string" left justified,
> "centre string" centred, and "righthand string right
> justified.
> 
> The typical use for such a thing is three-part running
> headers on successive pages, which is a very basic
> need, and there must be some way in which TeX does this
> layout for this purpose, which could be borrowed.

If it's headers/footers, then some interesting results
can be obtained with the fancyhdr package.  Both headers
and footers have three areas (left, center, right) and
you can use various marks to get chapter, section, or
just whatever (pictures too, with trickery).

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>