Continuing with the recent batch of updates on GraphicsBuilder, it turns out that text node now accepts halign and valign attributes, which come in handy in many situations, like the following one



antialias on font(size:32) balloon(x: 10, y: 10, w: 220, h: 100, bw: 2, f: 'white', arc: 30, tw: 20, th: 20, td:1, ap: 'start') text(t:'Text may be\ncentered now', bc: 'none', f: 'black', x: 230/2, y: 110/2, halign: 'center', valign: 'middle' ) cross( cx: 215, cy: 25, r: 8, angle: 45, bc: 'black', f: 'red' )
Needless to say ha and va are aliases for the new properties, which accept [left,center,right] and [top,middle,baseline,bottom] as respective values. Halign defaults to 'left' and Valign defaults to 'bottom', keeping backward compatibility. In the case of multiline text baseline has the same effect as middle, it only makes sense to use baseline in single line text.

Now on to other matters, perhaps the LaTeX support suggested by Demetrios and Toni.

Keep on Groovying!