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Re: vcenter help
From: |
James E. Bailey |
Subject: |
Re: vcenter help |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:51:54 +0200 |
Am 15.08.2008 um 19:36 schrieb Neil Puttock:
2008/8/15 James E. Bailey <address@hidden>:
Thanks, I think I've got a hang of it, (I was actually looking for
\hcenter), but now I have another question. Is there any situation
where
\center-align and \hcenter are exclusive? Aside from \hcenter needing
\column, I couldn't find any difference.
They're completely unrelated; \hcenter doesn't `need' column, it's
used to align an object to its centre *relative* to another object.
Ah, okay, that makes sense.
The example for \hcenter in B.8.2 uses \column as a convenience to
show the alignment relative to the arrow.
When I try it without the column, they aren't centered (assuming I
wanted to superimpose to markup objects on top of each other).
\markup {
\hcenter \column {
{ "One line of text." }
{ "Another line of text." }
}
}
This doesn't work, since \hcenter comes before \column; it has no
reference point to work with. If you swap them round, this behaves
just like \center-align.
Yes, I knew that, I just switched them as I was typing it.
And I think I've figured it out. \center-align aligns all object along
the center axis. \hcenter aligns an objects center axis to the left
axis of the reference point.
\markup {
\column {
one
\hcenter
two
three
}
}
Can I suggest this (or something similar) be the example for B.8.2? It
expresses very clearly, using terms from a previous example exactly
how \hcenter differs from \center-align.
- vcenter help, James E. Bailey, 2008/08/15
- Re: vcenter help, Neil Puttock, 2008/08/15
- Re: vcenter help, James E. Bailey, 2008/08/15
- Re: vcenter help, James E. Bailey, 2008/08/15
- Re: vcenter help, Neil Puttock, 2008/08/15
- Re: vcenter help,
James E. Bailey <=
- Re: vcenter help, Neil Puttock, 2008/08/15
- Re: vcenter help, Mats Bengtsson, 2008/08/17
- Re: vcenter help, Neil Puttock, 2008/08/17
- Re: vcenter help, James E. Bailey, 2008/08/17
- Re: vcenter help, Mats Bengtsson, 2008/08/19
- Re: vcenter help, Neil Puttock, 2008/08/19
- Re: vcenter help, Mats Bengtsson, 2008/08/19
- Re: B.8.2. Align, James E. Bailey, 2008/08/15