Alignment and diacritics

Former Member
Former Member

Hello!

I'm French so I deal a lot with words containing diacritics (foreign characters such as é, è, ê, ç, etc.). The problem is, diacritics mess my alignment. Let's say I want to align two words in a box, "Émile" and "Emile". The only difference is the accented "E". Corel Draw will not align those two words at the same place in the box since the height of the first word is bigger than the height of the second word. You understand? 

To fix that problem, what I usually do is that I remove the diacritics, align and then re-enter the diacritics.... but this is time-consuming, obviously.

I would absolutely LOVE to find a way to tell CD to ignore all diacritics. Is there a way?

thanks a lot.

Olivier

Corel Draw X8

  • Olivier, one simple way is to align the baseline of your two words (Ctrl+B). This aligns your objects/words etc. to the bottom. In this case, it would work, but if you had a hanging character like a "g" for example, in one word and not the other, it would not. Maybe others could answer this, but isn't there an Align to Baseline feature somewhere?
    • Former Member
      0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Pinetop
      Align to baseline ignore the "hanging" parts or letters, so your tip would work. That's good one (that I'm gonna remember!) but I'm looking for something that doesn't involve hassle.

      Sometimes I'm trying to evenly space a serie of words, vertically. If I'm doing this with 25 words and 13 of them have a capital diacritic... well it's gonna take me a long time.
      • Former Member
        0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Pinetop

         (thank you so much for taking the time to help me!!!!!!)

        I think you misunderstood this, I should’ve been clearer:

        My problem is (or at least, that's how I see it) with the DIACRITICS, and it shows it TWO ways: 1) when I vertically align stuff, and 2) when I space stuff. Not in paragraph text.

        Does the picture make anything clearer for you?

        • Olivier, are the words I'm looking at one string of Artistic text, or four individual items?
          • Bonjour Olivier,

            so I can only assume that in your example above, these 4 words are 4 individual artistic text objects. Artistic text objects, when it comes to alignment, behaves mostly like if they were curves. I think you should consider changing your objects to paragraph text objects (use CTRL+F8 to do that). Then line these up. After, you can reconvert to artistic text the same way.

            I did a test run and I think it'd yield the expected results. See below.

            • It is also worth noting that this problem isn't specific to diacritics. You'd have the same problem if "allo" was instead "mimi" or if you were using any other fonts for which capital letters extend beyond the tallest lowercase character.
              • I don't see a problem with either form of alignment so long as the align to First line baseline (Align and distribute text from the baseline of the first line) button is clicked on the Align and Distribute docker.