Re: \center-column sometimes appears not to reserve space.

[Colin Campbell]

On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 13:51 +0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
> news:address@hidden
> > Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2010, um 13:37:59 schrieb Alexander Kobel:
> >> On 2010-12-19 13:26, Phil Holmes wrote:
> >> > "Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> >> > news:address@hidden
> >> >
> >> >> Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2010, um 15:43:42 schrieb David Kastrup:
> >> >>> It would appear that the middle column has no horizontal size at all.
> >> >>> I think that's a regression in comparison to the last stable version.
> >> >>
> >> >> Nope, no regression, it was also broken in 2.12.3
> >> >
> >> > I've slightly lost track of this. Bug or no Bug?
> >>
> >> I'd say "no bug",
> >
> > I'd say it's a bug - but a longstanding bug, so lots of workarounds/hacks 
> > have
> > been used to workaround it.
> >
> > All stencils (center-column simply combines the individual stencils) 
> > should
> > report back proper extents, which center-column currently does not do (it
> > completely ignores the left half of the stencil).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Reinhold
> 
> Bug squad, please raise an issue.
> 
> 

I believe this is an example of issue 732, or at least very closely
related.

Colin
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