Quite often, I need to do a vertical alignment with some text and an object (or other text). The problem is that in Intaglio, the size of the text box depends on its content, hence:
Porte Maillot (no accents or descenders)
Argentine (descender)
Étoile (accent)
won’t align consistently vertically. I’ve checked v3 b7 and that is still the case. Sometimes a person might want an absolute alignment, but typographically, a consistent alignment should be preferred. Any thoughts?
Should be possible for Intaglio to base the dimensions of the text box on the absolute potential high/low of a particular font, rather than the actual text.
It’s true that’s a problem. The best workaround I can come up with is to align the text blocks to the grid instead of each other (Object > Align To Grid). For text objects this aligns the origin of the first character rather than a corner of the text’s bounding box. That way the baseline of the first line of text will be on a horizontal grid line.
If you need to align other objects to the text you could create a temporary horizontal line at the text baseline and align to that. You might want to lock it first to indicate it’s the alignment reference object.