Re: Asked before, now again with more questions attached

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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?