Re: midalignment

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:39 PM 6/21/2002 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Idris S Hamid <ishamid@attbi.com> writes:
>
> > Dear folks,
> >
> > In the following example, \midalign is not placing its argument in the 
> center
> > of the line but rather offset to the right a bit.
>
>this is because \midalign (and other alignment macros) do not look at
>the \leftskip and the \rightskip the \startnarrow sets. If you run
>(pdf)etex you can try this code before the \midalign:
>
>
>\def\doalignline#1#2% \\ == newline
>   {\bgroup
>    \def\\{\egroup\par\doalignline{#1}{#2}\bgroup}%
>    \dowithnextbox
>      {\noindent\hbox to \dimexpr(\hsize - \rightskip - \leftskip)
>        {\strut#1\unhbox\nextbox#2}\egroup}
>      \hbox}
>
>
>Hans should fix this. Sorry I don't have the time to put this into
>bugzilla.

better is:

\def\doalignline#1#2% \\ == newline
   {\bgroup
    \setlocalhsize % new
    \def\\{\egroup\par\doalignline{#1}{#2}\bgroup}%
    \dowithnextbox
      {\noindent\hbox to \localhsize{\strut#1\unhbox\nextbox#2}\egroup}
      \hbox}

Hans
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