Base line when adjusting align?

[Sponsi]

Hi,

Here's something I was trying to search the forum for but I ran out of patience...
I know this stuff is called "base line" of the text and I know how to manipulate it in CorelDraw (where you can set the alignment according to the real base line of the text) but I can't find it in Xara.

Here's the description:

I don't know why I don't know how to set it or I never really wanted to do it (that's strange, though) but I just came across a really annoying thing...

I write a text (not within a box but one click and writing) and then another one:

hello xara

and then I want to align it equally but make it straight in a horizontal line (I don't know why, I often confuse this because in my opinion something horizontal is something from left to right straight - anyway, I hope you know what I mean), just like up here above... I choose "selection bounds", then for horizontal distribute equi-spaced but then what to do with vertical?
When I choose align top - then "xara" goes up a bit, when I align center - then "xara" goes up less than before, when I make it to the bottom, then everything is OK as long as I don't use a word with "j", "y", or something else...then hello and xara go down

hello xara goodbye

because "g" and "y" here make the definite bottom (the tails make it) and "hello" and "xara" go down to this definite bottom..

I end up with not really straight text.

Any guesses how to do it?

Of course manual base line adjustment is out of question (it's not professional and precise enough).

Don't tell me I can't set the base line in Xara?

I get a proper base line when I draw with a box.. but then I have to align it "to the top"... but then I can't make it equally distributed (left-right)...

Here's the thing - not straight like I want it to be:

http://www.sponsi.net/straight.jpg

[haakoo]

When you place the text cursor on the stage keep it short(draw a little from left to right)
you'll see a red line,that's the base line
You can use it to fit text on curve(which doesn't have to be a curved line at all)

[ss-kalm]

Use a guideline and snap the text to it.

[iamtheblues]

When you have the text tool selected, the Text toolbar opens along the top of your workspace.
I've highlighted in red The tools you need. Hover the mouse over them and you'll get a tool hint.

[Sponsi]

Thanks for your replies.

haakoo I'm not sure I understand you, but I'll try to look for this red line..

iamtheblues I don't want to manually adjust this base line

Setting it on a curve is the last thing I wanted to do.. I thought there would be something like "align it bottom - to the base line indefinitely" or something...


EDIT:

Nope, this is not what I'm looking for.. still can't make it work out... well, I guess it's one of the things so basic and yet absent in Xtreme... : (

[iamtheblues]

Assuming they are separate pieces of text . Select them all, go to Arrange Menu/Alignment...and use these settings.
Saludos,
Bob.

[Sponsi]

I know that...

it's just that I can't align it correctly with respect to the real base line of a font..



HELLO XARA GOODBYE

doesn't have tails under...

hello xara goodbye

has got tails above: "h", "d" and "b"
and under: "g" and "y"..

I can't make it straight in terms of horizontal line..


Look:

[ss-kalm]

I repeat ... for those who missed it.

"Use a guideline and snap the text to it".

Is that too easy for you?

[ss-kalm]

Your method doesn't work Bob, as Sponsi said, the decender is aligned, not the bottom of the text.

[Sponsi]

Guideline - OK, I know
but I thought I could find the real base line settings...

As I said earlier, it looks like it's not present in XX...

EDIT:

Guidelines "see" only the base line of the "tail" (e.g. in "y"), not the base line I'd like it to see... this sucks!