Re: math align

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> I might have missed it by not reading careful enough: is it possible
>> to left/right/middle align certain columns inside \startalign?
>> 
> some day (try to convince me/taco,

Please, please, please :-)

> bribe us,

Not possible, I am a poor student :-)

> write detailed specs,

For certain applications, one needs to left/right align the columns. It 
will be nice if

\startformula \startalign
\NC a \NC[align=right]= -1 \NR
\NC b \NC[align=right]= 1  \NR
\stopalign \stopformula

comes out as

   a = -1
   b =  1

Maybe some way of doing this for all columns in a align, say
\startformula \startalign[align={2,right}] %This is ugly syntax, can't
                           % think of something good right away
\NC a \NC= -1 \NR
\NC b \NC=  1 \NR
\stopalign \stopformula

> send us so 
> many mails that we give in, etc)

This will be the next step :-) Hans, thanks a ton for all this 
functionality.

Aditya