Could someone please explain the CSS line-height attribute. It's like the only one I don't know.
The name is self-explanatory; defines the height of a line of text. This is one CSS property that's easier to show than to explain:
Look at my example here if you want to see the CSS and a working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/G59VX/.
It sets the height of a text line independent of the font-size. If you increase it, the lines will appear to be moving further apart, vertically.
The line-height is just that, it adjusts the full hight of a line of text, irregardless of font size. A healthy line height gives a paragraph of text a little breathing room and can make it much easier on the eyes. I usually do a line-height of 1.25em give or take.
Line-height defines the amount of space used for lines, most commonly in text. The primary use of line-height is making text readable. It is recommended to use unitless values of any other unit that isn’t static like the px unit.
A more detailed use is explained here.
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It doesn't look like LineBasicMaterial has any way that I can assign an alpha to it. But I would really like transparent lines. How do I do that? The whole line will have the same transparency, I guess that means it's a constant alpha?
I've created a CodePen demonstrating opacity in lines. Note that you must include transparency: true in the material properties, otherwise three.js will not consider opacity in its rendering formula.
Thank you #Marquizzo for kindly pointing me to this property, it's exactly what I was looking for.
I would like to generate some diagram style graphics using SVG and use text in the diagrams. My problem is, how to know the size of the text in advance to be able to adjust the rest of the layout accordingly. To make this explicit: I'm not talking about SVG in a browser. I would like to work with fixed units and generate PDF for printing for example. So if I use a 12pt font, it should also be printed as 12pt font.
To have a more concrete example: Lets assume I have the three strings "bla", "blablub" and "blubblablub". I would like to print them in a given 12pt font, determine the string size and enclosing boxes and draw the biggest sized box around all of them. The idea is to have equally sized boxed around all, based on the longest text.
Could somebody give me a hint how to do that or why it is not possible? Searching for this topic, I only get some JavaScript tricks in the browser, which usually involves rendering the text and then re-rendering everything again.
Ok, I am beat. I tried a few things but I am unable to make this happen. I need some help now.
I want to be able to have some text and picture side by side (only one line, thus no need for wrapping or other fun. The picture is small enough to fit in a text line):
This is a text <temp.jpg placed center to the textline>
Problem is, when I use
This is a text \includegraphics{temp.jpg}
the pictures baseline is alligned with the text baseline. I want the picture (vertical) center to be aligned with the text baseline. How can I make this possible?
This is a text $\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics{temp.jpg}}}$
It sounds like you want \raisebox (see the raisebox section of the LaTeX wikibook), with a negative argument. Use dimensions ex (the notional height of an 'x' in the current font) or \baselineskip (the size between text baselines) as your units.
If you want to do more complicated things, such as move the graphics box down by half its height, you can, but it gets fiddly. If the graphic size isn't unpredictable, you're probably better off tuning this by hand anyway.
In my opinion, most simple answer \raisebox{-0.5\totalheight}{<your graphic here>}
This is a text \raisebox{-0.5\totalheight}{\includegraphics{temp.jpg}}
Explanation:
\raisebox moves vertically the whole text/picture given as second argument. The first argument is the vertical shift as a length. This command provides the length \totalheight which is, self-explanatory, the height of the whole text/picture that you want to raise. The factor -0.5 lowers exactly at the half of the length(as the question demands). For aesthetic adjustments just modify the factor's value.
By the way, with this method there is no need to get into math mode as in #AlexeiMalistov answer, and no need of double command \vcenter + \hbox
I'm using LaTeX and I would like to have vertical rule along left side of page, topmargin to bottommargin, 0.5in from the left edge of the page. I want this on every page, so I assume that means it must somehow be tied to the header or the footer?
I've made no progress at all, so I need help with (1) making the full-length rule itself and (2) making it happen automatically on every page of the document.
Can someone tell me how to do that?
I got a working answer to my question on the Latex Community forum: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9072&p=34877#p34877
The answer I got uses the 'Background' package and this code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{background}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate filler text for the example
\SetBgScale{1}
\SetBgAngle{0}
\SetBgColor{black}
\SetBgContents{\rule{.4pt}{\paperheight}}
\SetBgHshift{-9cm}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-90]
\end{document}
Works great and was easy to adjust to put one vrule in left margin area and one in the right margin area.
There could be a LaTeX package to do this for you, but I'm more of a TeX person, so I tried to come up with a TeX solution (not always the best idea to mix plain TeX with LaTeX but I think I have it working).
Try this. Box 255 is the box register that TeX places the page contents into before the page is output. What I've done is taken the existing output routine, and changed it to insert into box 255: a 0-height, 0-width infinitely shrinkable-but-overflowing set of boxes containing a rule that is the height of the page, 0.4pt thick and with any luck, half an inch away into the left. The existing contents of box 255 is then added after this rule. Then I call the previous output routine which outputs the page (which now includes a rule), and also the headers and footers.
\newtoks\oldoutput
\oldoutput=\expandafter{\the\output}%
\output{%
\setbox255\vbox to 0pt{%
\hbox to 0pt{%
\vsize\ht255%
\vbox to \ht255{%
\vss
\hbox to -0.5in{%
\hss
\vrule height \ht255 width 0.4pt%
}%
}\hss
}\vss
\box255%
}%
\the\oldoutput
}%
Put it before your \begin{document} command. This might not solve your problem completely, but hopefully it should get you started. Here's a great page for learning about TeX primitives and built-in things.
Have a look at the eso-pic package. From memory, what you want would look like this:
\AddToShipoutPicture{%
\setlength\unitlength{1in}%
\AtPageUpperLeft{%
\put(0.5,\topmargin){\vrule width .5pt height \textheight}%
}%
}
It's not clear in your question if you want the line to span the text area or the whole paper height. Depending on the case, you have to replace \topmargin and \textheight by the correct values, either 0pt or whatever your top margin is, or by \paperheight. See the geometry package if you don't already use it for how to control those dimensions.
I am trying to send data to a specific MergeField. The data are sent correctly. Each line of the data has for specific characters. For example the data to the field may be:
12345 FIRST\nABCDE.F SECOND
(it cannot get the newline so i just so it through character \n)
Now in the printed document each character has its one width, '1' is smaller than 'E' for example. So the data are not alligned within the field. I tried the following fonts: Arial, Tahoma, Courier New. Nothing helped.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Ps the data are sent through an executable built by Visual C++ 5.0!!
You should probably use a tab-stop based layout. Set your tab-stops every, say, centimetre or so (i.e. just big than the widest character in your font) and add a tab before each element that needs to be aligned.
With this you shouldn't need to find a fixed width font and can use something more attractive.
Edit: Out of interest, I wonder why you have no luck with Courier New which is fixed width.
Maybe you could post a screenshot somewhere so we can have a look at your problem in more detail.
Try Courier - it does not have kerning (kerning = variable character width)
Also in the Font window there is a check box that allows you to apply kerning to fonts of a certain size or above - setting this value to a large font size may remove kerning.