Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:21:36 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.9/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h6HLLXcH001464 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:21:34 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6HLGZmp027357; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:16:36 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C34CA9.67227000" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h6GM0AkJ028243; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:16:04 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 2606 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:16:04 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h6HLG3M9007787 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:16:03 +0200 Received: from mutant.triumf.ca (mutant.Triumf.CA [142.90.112.22]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6HLGSmp027332 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:16:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from asnd@localhost) by mutant.triumf.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15128; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:26:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: William Adams's message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:51:45 -0400" Lines: 14 Organization: TRIUMF: Canada's national meson facility References: <18B0894D-B890-11D7-BDD5-0050E4455404@atlis.com> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jul 2003 21:21:37.0035 (UTC) FILETIME=[67C05DB0:01C34CA9] User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 X-Authentication-Warning: mutant.triumf.ca: asnd set sender to asnd@triumf.ca using -f X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -33.8 () EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA,X_AUTH_WARNING Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: weak alignments (was Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX engines) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:26:45 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: weak alignments (was Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX engines) Thread-Index: AcNMqWfj4fa5+FqvRfmv56VOBYXpKw== From: "Donald Arseneau" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4696 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34CA9.67227000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable William Adams writes: > Notice how the last column of the ``Completed root'' lines up (at the > page margin) for both. No, I don't; probably because you attempted to do ascii-layout with a proportional font. I suspect this isn't really hard to do with \halign, and a pre-defined size or two. For a true hairy experience, look at the tabularx package. Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34CA9.67227000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: weak alignments (was Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX = engines)

William Adams <wadams@ATLIS.COM> writes:

> Notice how the last column of the ``Completed = root'' lines up (at the
> page margin) for both.

No, I don't; probably because you attempted to do = ascii-layout with a
proportional font.

I suspect this isn't really hard to do with \halign, = and a pre-defined
size or two.

For a true hairy experience, look at the tabularx = package.

Donald = Arseneau           = ;            =    asnd@triumf.ca

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