Alignment Continued: Distance-Sensitivity, Order-Sensitivity, and the Midpoint Pathology *
Brett Hyde · 2008
An interesting consequence of the traditional alignment formulation (McCarthy and Prince 1993), first identified by Eisner (1997), is that alignment constraints can draw a stress, tone, or other object towards the center of form. Consider, for example, the sameedge alignment constraints MIDPOINTLEFT and MIDPOINTRIGHT, which align a particular