[XeTeX] asterism

[John Was]

Hello

I think even in LaTeX you should be able to use the basic TeX command 
\centerline:

\centerline{\asterism}

Does that work for you?


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <teginch at bluewin.ch>
To: <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] asterism


> Hmm.... one more question.
> I must admit that I'm still a novice in Latex and if this /asterism 
> command works fine at first sight, I find no way
> to center it, neither by adding \begin{center} to the newcommand 
> definition, nor by adding it where the new command is
> actually used. The asterism sticks left whatever I try. How can I center 
> it, either directly in the command definition
> or probably rather at the command usage ?
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> Tom
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>>Some time ago, Peter Flynn suggested this on comp.text.tex (changed 
>>slightly to my own needs):
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>>%%=========8><--------%%
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>>% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
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>>% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
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>>\documentclass{article}
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>>\usepackage{xltxtra}
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>>\setromanfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}
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>>\newcommand{\asterism}{%
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>> \smash{%
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>> \raisebox{-.15em}{%
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>> \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.05em}%
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>> \begin{tabular}{@{}cc@{}}%
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>> \multicolumn2c*\\[-.75em]*&*%
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>> \end{tabular}%
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>> }%
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>> }%
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>>}
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>>\begin{document}
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>>This \asterism\ is an asterism.
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>>\end{document}
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>>%%=========8><--------%%
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>>Stephen Moye
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