Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19442.D6E2867C@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:38:53 +0100 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19442.D6E2867C" x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil][nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: automatic centering Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 17:33:54 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" Sender: "bbeeton" To: "Rainer M. Schoepf" Reply-To: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 263 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19442.D6E2867C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable nelson asks whether over-large centered items should be allowed to exceed the margins automatically. while i agree that centering of items that are slightly wider than the text area is usually preferable to having it shifted to the right, in cases such as centered titles an even better solution is to divide the centered text into more shorter lines. it's my feeling that many people tend to ignore overfull boxes in any event, and full automatic centering might tend to camouflage situations where reasonable action would yield a better result. so i'd be in favor of keeping a widecenter environment, for intentional use in situations where there isn't any choice. -- bb ------- ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19442.D6E2867C Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable automatic centering

nelson asks whether over-large centered items should = be allowed
to exceed the margins automatically.

while i agree that centering of items that are = slightly wider
than the text area is usually preferable to having it = shifted
to the right, in cases such as centered titles an = even better
solution is to divide the centered text into more = shorter lines.

it's my feeling that many people tend to ignore = overfull boxes in
any event, and full automatic centering might tend to = camouflage
situations where reasonable action would yield a = better result.
so i'd be in favor of keeping a widecenter = environment, for
intentional use in situations where there isn't any = choice.
        =         =         =         =         =         -- bb
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