Aligning characters vertically

I'm trying to align all characters on one baseline:

I've tried using this replacement function, but it doesn't show any improvement

I think there might be a better way to do this

The full original code:



It's not clear to me whether you really want everything aligned on the baseline, as your text suggests, or whether you are trying to centre things, as you proposed alternative seems to indicate. If you want centring, you can obviously substitute the appropriate anchor.

This is adapted from egreg's modification of your code, as indicated below.

Aligning to base, for example, produces



Note that this code produces a lot of bad boxes. Since egreg left them, so did I, but you should probably address them in your real document if you can, one way or another.

The problem is the C column type.

You should use the predefined w{c} column type instead that doesn't try to typeset paragraphs.



Note the % character with the annotation “don't forget” and the simplified column specifications.