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Take a look at my post here: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... =45&t=8291

Hello, looks like this was posted a while ago, but I hope it's not too late for a reply.

One solution to your problem is to measure the size of the picture and to jail the picture in a minipage with vertical centering, setting the width of the minipage to the picture width that you just measured ...

Thanks Thorsten, that's just what I was looking for!
Sorry about the markup. I'll be careful next time.

PS. I'll make note of a caveat that got me confused for a while; it may be useful to someone else who finds this post having the same problem: changes to \abovedisplayskip and friends don't seem ...

Display math environments like \[..\], align (of AMS-LaTeX), etc. insert extra vertical space of about 0.5\baselineskip above and below the formula, which makes the text look very sparse with double spacing. Is there a way to suppress or shrink this extra space? I want align* to work especially, but ...

Hi everyone. I've been using LaTeX for a while now, but I can never seem to get a good handle on many basic things. The learning curve is way too steep for me...
I came across this forum with some very specific questions, but this seems like a good place to stick around and learn things.