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Help with plain TeX centering?

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From: Jason Parker
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:00
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Hi all.

	At the moment, I've decided that  LaTeX doesn't suit my needs
for small projects, and so I've decided to use plain TeX instead.

I've run into a small problem though, when trying to write a
`\center' macro for TeX.  What I'd like to be able to do is something
like this:

\center{lots of text, that goes over one line, blah blah blah}

and have TeX do the line breaks for me.  I tried using

\halign{\hfil#\hfil\cr
	text text text\cr
	...
}

but this means that *I* have to  do the line breaks.  Obviously this
is not acceptable.  I did think of constructing a vbox, with the
width set to an apporpriate value, but I can't  work out how to get
at the individual  lines again.

Any suggestions?

Jason Parker
ph330812@student.uq.edu.au

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From: ph330812@student.uq.edu.au (Jason Parker)
Subject: Help with plain TeX centering?
Date: 1997/03/12
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