fix invalid HTML center tag

Fixed the improper use of HTML center tag when building `authors.html`.

Changed `bin/gen-authors.sh` VERSION from to "1.4 2024-04-15"
to "1.5 2024-04-15".

Run `make gen_authors` to perform the above and test under macOS.

authors.html

@@ -123,8 +123,7 @@
 <!-- END: this line ends content from: inc/before-content.default.html -->
 <!-- START: this line starts content for HTML phase 21 by: bin/pandoc-wrapper.sh via bin/md2html.sh -->
 
-<center>
+<p style="text-align:center;">
-<p>
 Jump to authors starting with: [
 <a href="#A">A</a>  
 <a href="#B">B</a>  
@@ -153,7 +152,6 @@ Jump to authors starting with: [
 <a href="#Y">Y</a>  
 <a href="#Z">Z</a>]
 </p>
-</center>
 <p>
 <hr>
 <!-- A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A  A -->

bin/gen-authors.sh

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ shopt -s globstar	# enable ** to match all files and zero or more directories an
 
 # set variables referenced in the usage message
 #
-export VERSION="1.4 2024-04-15"
+export VERSION="1.5 2024-04-15"
 NAME=$(basename "$0")
 export NAME
 export V_FLAG=0
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ fi
     # output top of content
     #
     cat << EOF
-<center><p>Jump to authors starting with: [
+<p style="text-align:center;">Jump to authors starting with: [
 <a href="#A">A</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="#B">B</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="#C">C</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ fi
 <a href="#X">X</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="#Y">Y</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
 <a href="#Z">Z</a>
-]</p></center>
+]</p>
 <p>
 <hr>