Re: [NTG-context] vertically centered aligment of different sized texts

frantisek holop wrote:

hmm, on Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:53:47PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that

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Abusing math mode is easiest:

\def\vcentered#1% {\dontleavehmode\mathematics{\vcenter{\hbox{#1}}}} \starttext {\tfc The \vcentered{{\BigFont 7}\high{th}} Seal} \stoptext

thanks a lot. but if this is the "easiest" then what is the hardest? :)

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. 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. Cheers, Taco