Table Cell Alignment

[Fred Ridder]

Well, unless Adobe broke something in FM7.2, I think there is
something peculiar going on with your document.

I have FM7.1 on my Windows XP laptop, and constructed a
test table similar to what you have described. It works perfectly.
All asterisks are (almost) centered both horizontally and vertically,
and move up or down as the number of lines in the description
column contract or expand.

Was the original table imported from Word, by any chance? If so,
you might want to try converting the table to text and then back
to a table, then re-tagging the cells, all of which *should* get
rid of any lingering Word weirdness.

-Fred Ridder

>From: "Lin Surasky" <Lin.Surasky at retalix.com>
>To: "Stuart Rogers" <srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com>
>CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: RE: Table Cell Alignment
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:03:20 -0500
>
>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

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