From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \centerline vs. \midaligned vs. \startalignment[middle]
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:46:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5EAC96E-E1AD-4235-A6F0-F49C393473AD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wzaby9v5tpjj8f@lpr>
Am 26.06.2013 um 14:07 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@pontex.cz>:
> Hello,
>
> there are several similar commands to produce text (or another object) to be centered on the line.
>
> What are differences (or intended usage) among \centerline, \midaligned, \startalignment[middle]?
>
> (NB: \centerline has no its-own page on wiki, but it is used at several places in wiki samples.
>
> \centerline was also mentioned here in the mailing list, when I was trying to center "tabulate" - and neither \midaligned nor \startalignment[middle] combined with \dontleavehmode worked.)
The three commands
- \leftline,
- \rightline and
- \centerline
are copied from plain TeX and allow you to center short text which fits on a single line but it isn’t recommended to use them because ConTeXt has it’s own alternative for them. The replacement commands are
- \leftaligned,
- \rightaligned and
- \midaligned.
Even though each command is only meant for short text you use the \\ command to put text into several lines, e.g.
\starttext
\midaligned{One\\Two\\Three}
\stoptext
creates three lines for the input. In recent installations you can write
\startlinealignment[left|middle|right]
…
\stopalignment
as a alternative to \leftaligned etc.
With the alignment environment you can change the alignment of the text for a certain region. Unlike the line alignment environment you can use text which covers more than a single line.
\starttext
\input knuth\par
\startalignment[middle]
\input knuth\par
\stopalignment
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-26 12:07 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-06-26 12:46 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-06-26 13:00 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-06-26 13:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-06-26 13:30 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-06-26 13:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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