{spacing}, {alignment} & friends

Question

At the moment, at least the following tags exist in the spacing/alignment area:

• spacing (137 questions) -- according to its wiki entry, "[t]his tag marks questions dealing with both horizontal and vertical white space. This might be space between letters or words, or space between lines or paragraphs";
• line-spacing (22 questions);
• setspace (for the setspace package -- 7 questions);
• vertical-alignment (80 questions);
• horizontal-alignment (42 questions);
• alignment (30 questions);
• vspace (12 questions);
• centering (23 questions);
• raggedleft (3 questions);
• flushright (2 questions).

I would leave spacing, line-spacing, setspace, vertical-alignment and horizontal-alignment alone. For the rest, I propose the following:

• Questions tagged with alignment should be manually assigned to horizontal-alignment, vertical-alignment or the more general spacing tag;
• Questions tagged with vspace should be manually assigned to vertical-alignment or spacing;
• centering, raggedleft and flushright should be made synonyms of horizontal-alignment, and the existing questions should be merged. The (so-far) non existing tags raggedright, flushleft and justifying (a ragged2e environment) should also be made synonyms of horizontal-alignment.
• The (so-far) non existing tags raggedbottom and flushbottom should be made synonyms of vertical-alignment.

EDIT: As a week has passed and my proposal has gained some upvotes and no downvotes, I ask a moderator to create synonyms and merge existing tags according to points 3 and 4 of my proposal. (Questions tagged with alignment or vspace will be retagged manually, including the modification proposed by Seamus.)

Answer 1

I think alignment and spacing are distinct enough concepts that if the spacing tag is surviving, so should the alignment tag. While alignment might well be achieved by using spacing commands, there is a conceptual difference. What I object to is reassigning alignment questions to spacing. That seems to go against the distinction between the concepts.

In response to lockstep's comments, here's what I'd suggest. Try and retag alignment questions with either horizontal-alignment or vertical-alignment and if that fails, use positioning rather than spacing. This seems more in the spirit of the difference between spacing and alignment.

Otherwise I endorse the rest of the suggestions.