Hi, Stuart- You know, I realized this after I sent the message off. But I substituted Xs for the asterisks and it doesn't change things. The Xs/asterisks are literally touching the top rule of the table cell.
The anchored frame idea is a good way to work around it, although if there's a setting I'm missing, I'd prefer to fix it... Thanks! Lin > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:00 PM > To: Lin Surasky > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Table Cell Alignment > > Lin Surasky wrote: > > Hi all- > > > > Is there a known issue with vertical alignment in table > cells (FM 7.2 > > on Windows XP, unstructured)? > > > > I don't use tables very often, but I have a small one that > has a few > > narrow columns that contain asterisks to indicate whether a > condition > > is met, and one column of text that describes the solution based on > > where the asterisks fall. > > > > I want the asterisks to be centered in the table cell, so I > assigned > > them all a paragraph tag that defines both their horizontal and > > vertical alignment as centered. > > > > What I'm getting is top alignment for the first row (below > the header > > row and the only single-line row in the table), center > alignment for > > the third row, which is the tallest row, and > > top-to-center-well-I-guess-it's-close-enough alignment for > the rest of > > the rows. > > > > The default table cell margins are all even (4.0 pt), and > there are no > > format overrides, either at the paragraph level or at the > table format > > level (as far as I can tell...). > > > > What else should I be looking at? > > Lin, > > I think what you're seeing is just the fact the an asterisk > is (in most > fonts) located at the top of the cap height or the ascender > height, in other words, not vertically centred within its own > character space. > > The asterisk *looks* centred in the tallest row only because > your eye can't judge precisely enough to see that it's > slightly too high; in the shortest row, the difference is > more obvious. > > You could centre an asterisk as a text line in a small > anchored frame (maybe tweaking the A-frame's Distance above > baseline), then copy/paste into your cells. > > HTH, > > -- > Stuart Rogers > Technical Communicator > Phoenix Geophysics Limited > Toronto, ON, Canada > +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 > > srogers phoenix-geophysics com > > "It is not enough that I succeed. > Others must fail." > > -- Oscar Wilde >
