Re: OT: Rant
It's also unclear why the tabular environment is "heavy" or "overkill":
\begin{tabular}{lcr}
lefthand string & centre string & righthandstring\\
\end{tabular}
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> 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).
>
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> Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
>
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