General ⇒ Vertical alignment - pictures in tex

[Pere Callahan]

Hi,

I hope you can help me with a tiny alignment problem. I want to use small pictures in my text, and used includegraphics{} to dot hat. So far so good, but the pictures are slightly larger than the text and I want the middle of the pictures to be aligned witht he the middle of the text - currently the bottoms of pictures and text are on the same height.. I imagine there is a short way to fix this but I don't know it.
Thanks for any help
Pere

[localghost]

Giving specific help would be much easier when having a minimal working example (MWE) that shows the undesired effect. If necessary, you additionally have to post the affected graphics file in the attachment here. The better way would be to place a dummy instead of the graphics file so the MWE would be compilable on every machine.


Best regards and welcome aboard
Thorsten

[Pere Callahan]

Thanks for your answer, localghost.
I don't know how to use a dummy graphic so I attached one.
Here is the code for the MWE

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
I would like this black box \includegraphics{dummy} to be vertically centered.
\end{document}

I used pdflatex to compile the file.

Thanks again

Pere

[localghost]

Ah, now I see what you mean. Put the graphics into a minipage environment with a width that corresponds to that of the graphics. I worked out a small example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{txfonts}                   % Additional font package

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
  I would like this black box \rule{11pt}{11pt} to be vertically centered.

  \medskip
  This black box \begin{minipage}{11pt}\rule{11pt}{11pt}\end{minipage} is now vertically centered.
\end{document}

I guess this will help. Using an external graphics file, you would have to include it as follows.

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This small graphic \begin{minipage}{11pt}\includegraphics[width=11pt]{dummy}\end{minipage} is now vertically centered.

The minipage environment is automatically centered to the running text if not given any other option(s).

[Pere Callahan]

Great. Thank you very much.