Vertically aligning text in a field

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Terry,

There's a long discussion about this on the forum. I believe I did a 
good attempt, but Bernd's solution was probably the most reliable.

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On 12/16/2014 11:54, Terence Heaford wrote:
> Is there a definitive calculation that correctly sets the position of text vertically in a field?
>
> I am using LC 6.7.
>
> I have come across a few ideas like the one below that all appear to use an arbitrary offset to the margins, is there a method to calculate this accurately?
>
>     put the effective textSize of fld id tID into tTextSize
>     --   put round (((tTextSize - 22) * 1/3)) into tOffset
>     put round (((tTextSize - 24) * 1/3)) into tOffset
>     put the formattedheight of char 1 to - 1 of fld id tID into tFormattedHeight
>     put round((the height of fld id tID - tFormattedHeight) / 2) into tVerticalMargins
>     put tVerticalMargins - tOffset into tTopMargin
>     put tVerticalMargins + tOffset into tBottomMargin
>     set the margins of fld id tID to 8,tTopMargin,8,tBottomMargin
>
> All the best
>
> Terry