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Diagram question

#2671
From: Sandeep Kochhar x4618 5-2
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:59
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hi!
I've finally started using my Diagram package.  While it seems
pretty good for many types of diagrams (and has fancy-looking examples),
I haven't been able to do something that I really need and is normally
very simple to do, even in drawing packages much simpler than a diagramming
package:

 1. Basically, I want to have rectangles (boxes) whose text label is
    horizontally and vertically centered in them.  So far, it seems to me
    that Diagram's boxes have horizontally centered labels, but not
    vertically (they seem to start near the top of the box).  Thus, if
    I have vertically long box with the label "Box", it looks something like
                 ----------------
		 |     Box      |
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
                 ----------------
    instead of 
                 ----------------
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |     Box      |
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
		 |		|
                 ----------------

  2. Similar problems with the text (objects?) as well.  They don't seem
     to have a good notion of "natural" size.  I have to manually resize
     them to the smallest box.  This is again a pain when I need to
     vertically center a text with some other object.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing and/or the manual pages to read?

Thanks in advance.


-- 
Sandeep Kochhar
Computervision, MS 5-2            email: skochhar@cvbnet.prime.com
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