align.el

align.el

[Joe Corneli]

I tried align.el and have a mixed review.  An example
should speak for itself:

Input: 

\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
\alpha & a & \beta +	\gamma \\
\mu & c & \delta \\
\theta & \xi & \omega \\
\end{array}\right)

Output:

\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
\alpha & a	   &   \beta +	\gamma \\
\mu    &	 c &   \delta	       \\
\theta & \xi	   & \omega	       \\
\end{array}\right)


A considerable improvement -- but still leaves something 
to be desired.  Time to look at the code, eh?

Joe

Bigfont query

[Joe Corneli]

Does anyone know the meaning of this?  

_XF86BigfontQueryFont: could not attach shm segment


It is associated with loss of most custom set font functionality as
compared with my earlier set up (I worked around this by using .Xdefaults
to select fonts).


Joe

Re: align.el

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> On Tue Feb 18, Joe writes:

> I tried align.el and have a mixed review.  An example should speak
> for itself:

Are you sure the buffer is in TeX mode?  I ran your example and got:

\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
\alpha & a   & \beta +	\gamma \\
\mu    & c   & \delta          \\
\theta & \xi & \omega          \\
\end{array}\right)

Also, align.el is just a regexp-based aligner.  Don't expect the
world from it.

John

Re: align.el

[Kai Großjohann]

John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:

> Also, align.el is just a regexp-based aligner.  Don't expect the
> world from it.

It's too late.  align.el is too good, people will expect it to cook
their coffee, too.

I love it.  (align, not the coffe.  Though I also like coffee.)
-- 
A turnip curses Elvis

Re: align.el

[Klaus Berndl]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Kai Großjohann wrote:



>  John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:
>  
> > Also, align.el is just a regexp-based aligner.  Don't expect the
> > world from it.
>  
>  It's too late.  align.el is too good, people will expect it to cook
>  their coffee, too.

Seems that this thread has the motto "praising align.el". OK, i love this
package too :-)

>  
>  I love it.  (align, not the coffe.  Though I also like coffee.)

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