I think that a simple translate is best, anyhow, who's poor figners cannot
take the miniscule extra effort to type a translate command, hell the amount
you just wrote they must be worn down to the stumps, i hope your medical
insurance covers this.

and while were on the subject, what is the point of fixing something that
isnt broken, if it works, LIVE WITH IT.

Rick

Dan Connelly wrote in message <364### [at] flashnet>...
>IRDWYDOMD :).
>
>There is no ambiguity -- the docs are incredibly clear.
>
>If you mean consistency, it isn'c clear to me it requires height fields
>be centered.  Boxes aren't.  And it is conventional to assign coordinates
to raster
>images with the origin at a corner.  Either centered or uncentered
>would be justified.
>
>And if you want to count characters, just do "translate -0.5" .
>You can even assign this to a macro to make your own "keyword".
>There's no reason to clutter up the official keyword list.
>
>Dan
>
>Ken wrote:
>>
>> Dan Connelly wrote:
>>
>> > I respectfully disagree.  The documentation is incredibly clear.
>> > A simple "translate <-0.5, -0.5, -0.5>" centers things -- this is
>> > so trivial there is no reason to change the source code.
>> >
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>> > http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/
>>
>> I respectfully disagree with your respectful disagreement.
>> Your simple example is 28 characters long. That's a lot
>> of simple typing. Nor does it redily explain the ambiguity.
>>
>> Ken
>
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