need a way to horizontally align <table>s

[reschke]

(from https://tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/ticket/324)

This was possible in v2 with texttable/@align.

[paulehoffman]

Please say more about the "need" here. What semantically is being lost without this? Can tables be misinterpreted without such alignment?

[reschke]

No, but I don't see how this is relevant.

We do have attributes to control same-page-placement, which is presentation only, and only applies to paged media, after all.

[reschke]

FWIW, a quick & dirty statistic over AUTH48 XML shows ~1700 text tables (in 427 RFCs), of which ~120 were aligned left using the align attribute (in 45 RFCs). The default would be centered.

[levkowetz]

+1, see additional reasoning in issue #40 (duplicate issue). Experience with the limitation of the v3 text formatter indicates that removing this ability is detrimental.

[paulehoffman]

Fixed in the -01