Going from bus to multiple input gate in a nice way?

[mengstr]

This is annoying me a bit - I wish there was a way to make gates not have a "hole" in the middle of the inputs when the number is even. Or in there another way of doing this in a nicer/better way?

[hneemann]

A more elegant way - at least as far as the layout of the circuit is concerned - in this particular case would be to use a comparator. Otherwise, there is no better way.