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On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 10:52 pm, Glenn R. Williams wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I found a curious problem in bTABLE. It seems that the alignment paramter
> on bTD is backwards: specifying "left" gives a column as right-aligned, and
> "align=right" gives you left alignment. 

As far as I recall this is a feature, not a bug. It's just that "right" is 
actually shorthand for "raggedright" (and "left" similarly). Slightly 
confusing, at least the first time you see it, but it does make a certain 
amount of sense. 

dh