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

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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