[Tex/LaTex] Vertical Text Alignment in Title

sectioningtitlesecvertical alignment

I'm trying to make a title format with a large chapter number, and then smaller text with the name of the title. The following code mostly does what I want:

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Garamond}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}{\raggedright}
    {\fontsize{72pt}{72pt}\selectfont\thechapter}{1em}{\huge}

\begin{document}
\chapter{A Short Title}
Lorem ipsum...
\chapter{A Very Long Title With Extra Words}
Lorem ipsum...
\end{document}

However, if the chapter title is longer than 1 line, the vertical alignment of the numeral is unpleasant. I'd love to tell the numeral to be vertically aligned so that the top of the numeral matches the top of the rest of the text on the line, as opposed to the current alignment, where the baseline of the numeral is aligned with the baseline of the remainder of the text.

I don't know what command would make this possible – and it's probable that there are lots better ways of solving this problem.

Best Answer

works for all cases:

\documentclass[12pt,openany]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec,tabularx}
\renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{m{#1}}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Biolinum O}
\newsavebox\CBox
\makeatletter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
  \vspace*{50\p@}%
  \parindent \z@ \normalfont
  \sbox\CBox{\fontsize{72pt}{74pt}\selectfont\thechapter}
   \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}m{\wd\CBox}@{\quad}>{\raggedright}X@{}}
     \usebox\CBox & \Huge \bfseries #1
   \end{tabularx}
   \par\nobreak
   \vskip 40\p@}
\makeatletter

\begin{document}
\chapter{A Short Title}
Lorem ipsum...
\chapter{A Very Long Title With Extra Words}
Lorem ipsum...
\chapter{A Very Long Title With Extra Words A Very Long Title With Extra Words}
Lorem ipsum...

\setcounter{chapter}{10}
\chapter{A Very Long Title With Extra Words A Very Long Title With Extra Words}
Lorem ipsum...
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Multiline title vertical alignment using classicthesis and arsclassica

One possibility would be to use \formatchapter with two minipages (one for the number, the other for the title) with bottom alignment:

\documentclass[english,fontsize=11pt,paper=a4,twoside,
openright,titlepage,numbers=noenddot,
headinclude,BCOR=5mm,footinclude=true,
cleardoublepage=empty]{scrreprt}

\input{classicthesis-config.tex}
\usepackage{arsclassica}
\usepackage{babel}
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{lmss}

\renewcommand\formatchapter[1]{% 
  \begin{minipage}[b]{0.15\linewidth}
    \chapterNumber
  \end{minipage}%
  \begin{minipage}[b]{0.6\linewidth}
    \raggedright\spacedallcaps{#1}
  \end{minipage}
} 

\begin{document}

\chapter{Conclusions and Recommendations}

\chapter{A Really Long Example Title Spanning Three Lines}

\end{document}

An image of a title spanning two lines:

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An image of a title spanning three lines:

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I suppressed parts of the example code that were not relevant to the problem discussed.

[Tex/LaTex] Vertical alignment of text between images

Just to summarize what was mentioned in the comments above and provide some comparison and comments on accuracy and simplicity. Additionally, I suggest a fourth approach with \parboxes with high accuracy. All the approaches below use only LaTeX macros, but other primitive methods can be used.

\documentclass{article}
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\begin{document}

\newcommand{\picA}{\includegraphics[height=1.25in,width=1.7in]{example-image-A.pdf}}
\newcommand{\picB}{\includegraphics[height=.5in,width=1in]{example-image-B.pdf}}

\parbox{\widthof{\picA}}{\picA} + another one
\parbox{\widthof{\picB}}{\picB} =

\bigskip

\begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}\picA\end{tabular} + another one
\begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}\picB\end{tabular} =

\bigskip

\raisebox{-.5\height}{\picA} + another one
\raisebox{-.5\height}{\picB} =

\bigskip

\includegraphics[valign=m,width=1.7in]{example-image-A.pdf} + another one
\includegraphics[valign=m,width=1in]{example-image-B.pdf} =

\end{document}

Method 1

I suggested \parboxes because they are naturally vertically aligned, so this property can be used for vertically aligning images. The accuracy here is the highest of all other methods (observe the alignment of the horizontal bar of + with the image center line), but one must explicitly provide a width argument to the \parbox macro. Fortunately, we have the calc package, which can provide that length to \parbox seamlessly. In this case, \widthof command is used.

Method 2

In the second method, two tabulars are used. This seems a simple method, but unfortunately, the alignment is not perfect out of the box. We observe that the images are a bit higher than the + and the = signs.

Method 3

The third method uses the \raisebox macro from graphicx package (note that adjustbox loads graphicx). This also seems a simple method, but unfortunately, the alignment is again not perfect out of the box. We observe that the images are a bit lower than the + and the = signs.

Method 4

The last method uses the valign=m command from adjustbox package to center the images vertically. The accuracy here is improved (better than the above two methods), but using valign=m in conjunction with height=<length> scales the images unexpectedly.

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Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Multiline title vertical alignment using classicthesis and arsclassica

[Tex/LaTex] Vertical alignment of text between images

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