From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28040 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: frantisek holop Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: vertically centered aligment of different sized texts Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20060518094641.GN29682@obiit.org> References: <20060516235035.GI29682@obiit.org> <446B4F43.4070300@boede.nl> <446B551B.5030403@elvenkind.com> <20060517201549.GJ29682@obiit.org> <446C18B7.7090508@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147945652 19725 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2006 09:47:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:47:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 18 11:47:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fgf5q-0004SA-0U for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF6C127C5; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09773-05; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4BB12793; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD5F1277C for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09836-03 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from integer.obiit.org (integer.obiit.org [195.168.92.92]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id D792912793 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by integer.obiit.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4705096F5A; Thu, 18 May 2006 11:46:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Mail-Followup-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <446C18B7.7090508@elvenkind.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:28040 Archived-At: hmm, on Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:48:23AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that > The mathematical center of the line is not necesarily the > optical center, so a somewhat more correct approach would > put all the stuff in an \hbox and then compute manually > how far it has to drop down. i haven't used latex for quite some time now, so i can't recall how problematic it was to accomplish something like this, but i find it interesting that there is no easy approach to this. > For a more pleasing look, it would perhaps be even better > to line up a normal '7' as if it was an oldstyle numeral, > and then enlarging it while keeping the same vertical > alignment ratio. i've tried the old style numeral but i didn't like it. by "keeping the same vertical alignment ratio" do you mean something like \raise? -f -- i thank my lucky stars i'm not superstitious.