hjust and vjust, not working for the legend text anymore?

[nzcoops]

This might be old news, but it seems hjust and vjust are no longer legend text.

If this is old news, what is the best way to stay in the loop with these things coming and going?

This example is straight out of the github examples:
https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/wiki/Legend-Attributes

xy <- data.frame(x=1:10, y=10:1, type = rep(LETTERS[1:2], each=5))
plot <- ggplot(data = xy)+
geom_point(aes(x = x, y = y, color=type))
plot + opts(legend.text = theme_text(colour = 'red', angle = 45, size = 10, hjust = 3, vjust = 3, face = 'bold'))

[nzcoops]

Okay, to expand on this, having looked in guides via joran on SO.

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x=wt, y=mpg, colour=factor(cyl))) + geom_line()
p + opts(legend.title=theme_text(size = 15))
# great that bumped the font size up, the 'original/old way'

# now use the new guides options
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(title.theme = theme_text(size = 8)))
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(title.theme = theme_text(size = 8), title.position="left"))
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(title.theme = theme_text(size = 8), title.position="left", title.vjust=2))
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(title.theme = theme_text(size = 8), title.position="left", title.vjust=2, title.hjust=1))
# so we can change the font size, move it to one size, change vertical alignment but not horiztonal?

# but what if it's on top?
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(title.theme = theme_text(size = 8)))
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(title.theme = theme_text(size = 8), title.hjust=1))
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(title.theme = theme_text(size = 8), title.hjust=1, title.vjust=2))
# can change size but not alignment

# what about nrow
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(nrow=2,title.theme = theme_text(size = 8)))
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(nrow=2,title.theme = theme_text(size = 8), title.hjust=1))
p + guides(colour = guide_legend(nrow=2,title.theme = theme_text(size = 8), title.hjust=1, title.vjust=2))
# so when it's on top we can adjust the horizontal but not the vertical alignment

From this I conclude that we can't tweak vjust when the title is on top, can't tweak hjust when it's the on the side and can only tweak hjust on the top when it's forced wider with nrow. To me this isn't optimal functionality and is more restrictive than what we used to have? Or is there something I'm missing.

The way I came across this was through tweaking a graph for publication, in a tight space (2.6" wide output), and needing to move the legend title just a fraction. I wrote the theme for this particular graph I'm doing a few months ago, then noticed it wasn't doing now what it did then, then noticed the move to 'guides' via joran @SO, then wound up here(/ in this position).

Cheers