On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:36:25PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes spake thusly: > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Is there any reason why the Caption layout in stdlayouts.inc > Martin> only knows about centering? It used not to be that way. > > Captions have no alignment.
Earlier they had... ah, I see. There was only the appearance that they had. > To be more precise, the alignment rule of captions is 'center me if I > am shorter than a line, and use block alignment otherwise'. We chose to > show it as center, but it is arbitrary to some extent. Yes, I would have preferred block in that case. This deceived me; I saw the centered caption and thought that somehow it was inherited from my new code to center the float inset around it. It took me a little while to shake off that idea... > As far as I know, one cannot change this alignment rule (except that I > am sure that some nifty package somewhere can do it...). Yes, a package called imaginatively 'caption'. > This is only for the stcok classes, of course. > > JMarc - Martin
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