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It is only possible to align that form part of a . Objects within a group can be aligned vertically or horizontally using the sub menu Transform->Justify.
Note that alignment is not recursive: if a group contains another group, the contents of the sub group will not be aligned, each element in the sub group will be moved by the same amount.
If the menu item TeX/LaTeX->Settings->Auto Adjust Anchor is
selected, any that are contained in a
group that is justified will automatically have their
|| changed. For example,
in Figure 8.21 one of the objects is a text area.
If the auto anchor update facility is enabled, the text area in Figure 8.21(b) will have its horizontal anchor
changed to Left, in
Figure 8.21(c) it will have its horizontal anchor
changed to Centre and in
Figure 8.21(d) it will have its horizontal anchor
changed to Right. Similarly,
applying a vertical alignment will change the vertical anchor
to one of: Top,
Centre or
Bottom. Note that there is no way
of aligning text areas along their baseline.8.3
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Tip: Sometimes you might want to centre an relative to another thinner object. In this case it's better to create a || centred on the thin object that encompasses all the objects you want to justify. Include this rectangle in the group, justify, ungroup and then delete the rectangle. For example, the image shown in Figure 8.22(a) has a below the middle line. It would look better if the text was centred below the line, so I grouped the middle line and text area and justified them using Transform->Justify->Centre. The result is shown in Figure 8.22(b). Although the text and line are now centred relative to each other, the line was moved to the centre of the text area, not the other way round. This was not what was intended. Instead, in Figure 8.22(c), I created a new rectangle that is centred on the line. Since the line is on a tick mark and the grid lock is on, it is relatively easy to create this rectangle (much easier than trying to move the text area to manually align it). I then grouped the rectangle, the middle line and the text area and justified them using Transform->Justify->Centre. The result is shown in Figure 8.22(d). The justified objects were then ungrouped and the rectangle was deleted to produced Figure 8.22(e).
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