Alignment of rotatebox by baseline

alignmentrotatingtables

When I try to use several ±90° \rotateboxes one below the other, they are misaligned due to ascenders and descenders causing different sizes of boxes, as demonstrated below. How can I align them correctly? One workaround is demonstrated in my answer below, but I’m sure there is a better way.

I need this for setting rotated labels with bigdelim in tables.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\rotatebox{90}{peon}

\rotatebox{90}{eon}

\rotatebox{90}{lion}

\rotatebox{-90}{peon}

\rotatebox{-90}{eon}

\rotatebox{-90}{lion}

\end{document}

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Another possible solution is add \strut to \rotatebox:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\rotatebox{90}{peon\strut}

\rotatebox{90}{eon\strut}

\rotatebox{90}{lion\strut}

\rotatebox{-90}{peon\strut}

\rotatebox{-90}{eon\strut}

\rotatebox{-90}{lion\strut}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Line break in rotatebox in table

How about putting the "problematic" header into a \parbox and manually adding \\ (which works inside the box) where necessary?

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{rotating}

\begin{document} 

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
\rotatebox{90}{Header 1} &
\rotatebox{90}{Header 2} &
\rotatebox{90}{\parbox{4cm}{An awkwardly long \\header that cannot be \\abbreviated in a \\meaningful way}}\\
\hline
Content & Content & Content\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] tabularx with rotatebox and top-alignment

The \belowbaseline command pushes its argument to a distance below the baseline, given by the optional argument. In this case, I made it 0ex, but you can change that.

The drop of the normally aligned columns, relative to the top of their cells, is due to the itemize environment.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}


\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|l|X|X|}
    \hline
     & \textbf{column title1} & \textbf{column title2} \\ 
    \hline 
    \belowbaseline[0ex]{\rotatebox{90}{\parbox{1.7cm}{%
       \raggedright\textbf{title1\\ on 2 lines}}}}
    &
    \begin{itemize}
        \item content item1 top aligned.
        \item content item2.
    \end{itemize}
    &
    \begin{itemize}
        \item content item1 top aligned.
        \item content item2.
    \end{itemize} \\ 
    \hline 
     & \textbf{column title1} & \textbf{column title2} \\ 
    \hline
    \belowbaseline[0ex]{\rotatebox{90}{\parbox{1.7cm}{%
      \raggedright\textbf{title2\\ on 2 lines}}}}
    &
    \begin{itemize}
        \item content item1 top aligned.
        \item content item2.
    \end{itemize}
    &
    \begin{itemize}
        \item content item1 top aligned.
        \item content item2.
    \end{itemize} \\ 
    \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

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