Text Formatting ⇒ horizontal central alignment in picture environment

[brac37]

Hello all,


I want to put text on some spot in a picture environment, with horizontal central alignment but no vertical alignment. With

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\put(10,10){\makebox(0,0){text}}

I get full central alignment, but I want capital letters ABC... to be placed higher than the letters gpqy which have about the same height, just as in normal text. Can this be achieved?

[achim]

We can't find 'ABC' nor 'gpqw' in your code. How are we supposed to know what you're talking about?
Please provide a minimal working example and(/or) a better problem description, if you want an answer to your post.

[brac37]

The capital letters are entirely above the line, while the lower parts of gpqy are below the line. This is the case in every text you read. I currently use a quick and dirty solution of top alignment and white |'s around the text to make the text higher when only letters acegmnopqrsuvwxyz are used. These letters reach less high than others in every text you read.

[frabjous]

Re-read achim's post, and notice that what achim says is still true, and needs to be addressed. (Read also the link achim gives.)

We understand what you want. We don't (just) need a description. We need code to play around with. We're too lazy to make up our own examples, and it would be better for you do to that anyway to make it more relevant. Meet us halfway.

[achim]

I double frabjous' post once more.

With your still very vague problem description, all I can do is return an equally vague answer...

You might want to look in the pstricks packet. \rput offers you the option to align text on; center(c), top(c), bottom(b), baseline(B), left(l) and right(r).

[CrazyHorse]

Hello all,


I want to put text on some spot in a picture environment, with horizontal central alignment but no vertical alignment. With

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\put(10,10){\makebox(0,0){text}}

I get full central alignment, but I want capital letters ABC... to be placed higher than the letters gpqy which have about the same height, just as in normal text. Can this be achieved?

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\mbox{}
\put(10,10){\makebox(0,0)[B]{\vphantom{gf}GHG\_\_}}%
\put(40,10){\makebox(0,0)[B]{\vphantom{G}gfg\_\_}}

\end{document}

Herbert

[brac37]

The vphantom command is less ugly than white text and works also better because no invisible characters will be selected in the pdf.

But I use the rput solution with baseline (capital B) alignment (\rput{0}(0,-2.5pt){text} instead of \makebox(0,0){text} to be precise), since this pstricks command seems to work with pdflatex as well. The -2.5pt is because the baseline is lower than the center of the text, pt is necessary because otherwise the wrong unit is used (in or cm or something).

Thanks all for your suggestions.

Here is an example, but it is actually meant for showing shearing.

[localghost]

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Thorsten