Re: Proposed syntax change: renaming of \center-align markup command

[Trevor Daniels]

Neil Puttock wrote Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:39 PM

> To recap, the favoured option is as follows:
>
> horizontal alignment (single): \left-align, \center-align, \right-align
> vertical alignment (stacked): \left-column, \center-column, \right-column

Much clearer.  Fine.

> As for \hcenter and \column, should I leave these as duplicates of
> \center-align and \left-column (which would help minimize user
> complaints), or remove them?

I would suggest they are left available for 2.11 and 2.12, with a 
warning issued in 2.12 whenever they are used, and removed in 
2.13 and beyond.
 
Could this be adopted as a general approach whenever possible in
future, or would it cause too many complications?

> Cheers,
> Neil

Trevor