[texhax] Centering within an arbitrary vbox

[Peter Seibel]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Philip G. Ratcliffe
<philip.ratcliffe at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
>> I have this bit of TeX code:
>>
>>    \line{\hfill\vbox{\hbox{Chapter}\hbox{8}}}
>>
>> Which renders something like this (pardon my ASCII art):
>>
>>
>> |                                     Chapter|
>> |                                     8           |
>>
>> What I want is for the "8" to be centered under the "Chapter"
>> but with the combined vbox flush right.
>>
>> [snip]
>
> The tabular environment is probably th simplest solution:
>
> \line{\hfill\vbox{%
>  \tabcolsep=0pt % to keep things flush
>  \begin{tabular}{c}
>    Chapter\\8
>  \end{tabular}
> }}

Thanks. I had also just figured out this:

\newlength{\foo}
\settowidth{\foo}{CHAPTER}

\hbox to \hsize{\hfill
  \vbox{
    \hbox{CHAPTER}
    \hbox to\foo{\hfill 8\hfill}}}

-Peter

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