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From: Karl Nelson (kenelson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-29 12:41:25


> --- In boost_at_y..., "Brey, Edward D" <EdwardDBrey_at_e...> wrote:
> > > From: Stewart, Robert [mailto:stewart_at_s...]
> > >
> > > The directionality of < and > will work well for left and
> > > right alignment.
> > > What about centering? printf() and IOStreams don't provide
> > > for that, but
> > > it's a common formatting task that I'd rather the library got
> > > right once and
> > > for all.
> >
> > Yes, centering would be helpful (although less so in a spring tab
> > environment). '=' might be a good character to represent it,
> depending on
> > the surrounding syntax.
>
> If left is < and right is > why shouldn't center be ^?

Hey stop stealing my ideas! I just coded that few nights ago.

;-)

--Karl


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