Am Freitag, 10. September 2004 04:43 schrieb Octavio Alvarez Piza: > Hi, all. This is my first post to the list. > > > Am Donnerstag, 9. September 2004 17:10 schrieb Jim Clark: > >> If I choose Center (my > >> usual choice) it aligns them against some intermediate, self-determined > >> meridian. I do not see where/how/if I can specify (and cannot really > >> imagine how such thing would be specified) to say Align Item B with Item > >> A. > > > > Just use "vertical"->"top" (select both objects before). "top" or > > "bottom" use > > the upper or lower border, center uses the center of each object. (or > > "horizontal", if you want them to be in a row. You see, makes sense :-) ) > > I have an example that isn't quite solved by that. Say I have a flow chart > which has 4 columns. I want to spread those 4 columns evenly, so after > selecting the widest element from each column I ask for horizontal > spreading. Now, I need to center the rest of the elements in each column > to the middle of the element selected (the widest) in the column. In this > case, neither "horizontal -> center" or "left" or "right" or any > combination will do what I expect. >
1. select all 4 columns 2. horizontal->same distance 3. for x=1;x<5;x++ 4. select column x, object x 5. vertical->center 6 next For loop is necessary. If you would select all 4 columns and objects to center them vertically, they would overlap each other in one column. Does this solve the problem? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
