Alignment in equation editors

[Regarding the discussions of Lakshmi and Ross:]

We do not have text alignment in Equations because when wanted to adhere to strict latex notation. Everything you do visually has a correspondence in the latex code and vice versa.

But latex has several shortcomings regarding text editing, for example by default you cannot use colour, we needed to dig an extension to allow that. This did not really bother us as anyway MS Word, Open Office, etc, have far better alignment and positioning options than the ones available in latex text formatting.

After all it was never our intention with Equations to build a fully featured word processor but only an equation editor to work with other word processors.

[contributed by Luis Dias]