I need to place an icon and text behind each other on one line. The icon is higher than a single text line, and would like to have the icon and text center aligned. How do I do that?
[Tex/LaTex] Vertically center text and image in one line
graphicsvertical alignment
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Vertically centering cell entries is possible via the m{<width>} column type from the array package. Horizontal centering is obtained by prepending the column entries with \centering\arraybackslash (also supported by array). For completeness and brevity, the MWE below defines the new column type M which does all of the above:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
%\usepackage{showframe}% http://ctan.org/pkg/showframe
\usepackage[margin=1.0in]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/margin
\usepackage{booktabs}% http://ctan.org/pkg/booktabs
\usepackage{array}% http://ctan.org/pkg/array
\newcolumntype{M}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{\dimexpr.25\linewidth-2\tabcolsep}}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{MMMM}
\toprule
A & B & D & E \\
\midrule
\rule{15pt}{10pt} & One & Two & Three \\
\rule{15pt}{10pt} & Three & One & Two \\
\rule{15pt}{10pt} & Two & Three & One \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
For images, I've used \rule{15pt}{10pt}, although the above solution works for any image size.
The table width is also chosen to fit exactly within the text block, making each of the four columns the same width (.25\linewidth-2\tabcolsep). To see this, uncomment the showframe package which highlights the text block boundary.
Three methods:
With
tabular\begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}<material>\end{tabular}With
\raiseboxand measuring a capital letter\raisebox{.5\fontcharht\font`E-.5\height}{<material>}With
\raisebox and1ex` (which is David's solution)\raisebox{1ex-0.5\height}{<material>}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{calc}
\begin{document}
T \begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}\rule{0.25in}{0.25in}\end{tabular} T
\raisebox{.5\fontcharht\font`E-.5\height}{\rule{0.25in}{0.25in}} T
\raisebox{1ex-0.5\height}{\rule{0.25in}{0.25in}} T
\end{document}
I'd use the first method, but it depends on the real application. The centering, for the first method, is with respect to the math axis, where fraction lines would be drawn.
Best Answer
The only way I found to do this robustly (well, Scott showed me this...) is to put the figure in a math matrix:
resulting in