Vertical alignment of graphic and tabular

Question

There are a bunch of related questions here. But I was not yet able to pull this off yet.

I have the following code: (where hist.tex is a plot drawing)

\fbox{\scalebox{0.40} {\input{hist.tex}}}
\quad
\begin{tabular}{ll}
    p: 78\%&\\\\
    $\mu$: -7\% & $\sigma$: 7\%\\
    $\alpha$: 0.43 & N: 11977
\end{tabular}

The output:

_{(source: fc.up.pt)}

I would like them to be aligned!!

Answer 1

Whether you want both objects aligned at the top or at the bottom, you can use two minipage environments and apply the \vspace{0pt} trick to obtain the desired vertical alignment (a quirk of TeX/LaTeX).

See also Understanding minipages - aligning at top for more details.

Set the optional argument to both minipage environments to

• t for top alignment,
• b for bottom alignment.

Note: I've used tikzpicture environment as placeholder for your graph, as you didn't provide the code for that.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{minipage}[t]{.5\textwidth}
\vspace{0pt}
\raggedleft
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \filldraw[draw=red,fill=red!20] rectangle (3,3);
    \end{tikzpicture}
\vspace{0pt}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[t]{.5\textwidth}
\vspace{0pt}
\raggedright
    \begin{tabular}{ll}
            p: 78\%&\\\\
            $\mu$: -7\% & $\sigma$: 7\%\\
            $\alpha$: 0.43 & N: 11977
    \end{tabular}
\vspace{0pt}
\end{minipage}  

\end{document}

Answer 2

You can use the adjustbox package which does all the work without you setting any length. Just change the mock tikzpicture with your plot.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{adjustbox}

\begin{document}

\section{Centered alignment}

\begin{adjustbox}{valign=c}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \filldraw[draw=red,fill=red!20] rectangle (3,3);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{adjustbox}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
  p: 78\%&\\[2ex]
  $\mu$: -7\% & $\sigma$: 7\%\\
  $\alpha$: 0.43 & N: 11977
\end{tabular}

\section{Top alignment}

\begin{adjustbox}{valign=t}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \filldraw[draw=red,fill=red!20] rectangle (3,3);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{adjustbox}
\begin{tabular}[t]{ll}
  p: 78\%&\\[2ex]
  $\mu$: -7\% & $\sigma$: 7\%\\
  $\alpha$: 0.43 & N: 11977
\end{tabular}

\section{Bottom alignment}

%\begin{adjustbox}{valign=b} % adjustbox not really needed
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \filldraw[draw=red,fill=red!20] rectangle (3,3);
\end{tikzpicture}
%\end{adjustbox}
\begin{tabular}[b]{ll}
  p: 78\%&\\[2ex]
  $\mu$: -7\% & $\sigma$: 7\%\\
  $\alpha$: 0.43 & N: 11977
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

Answer 3

Depending on whether you wanted it top or center aligned (or bottom for that matter), you would add differing amounts of vertical movement to the image. For my example, moving the top of the image 2 and 3 \baselineskip of upward shift relative to the baseline was sufficient (i.e., negative below-baseline = upward relative to top of image). Your mileage may vary.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\parskip 1em
\begin{document}
\def\x{\fbox{\scalebox{0.40} {\rule{2in}{2in}}}}
\def\y{%
\begin{tabular}{ll}
    p: 78\%&\\
\\
    $\mu$: -7\% & $\sigma$: 7\%\\
    $\alpha$: 0.43 & N: 11977
\end{tabular}}
\belowbaseline[-2\baselineskip]{\x}\quad\y \par
\belowbaseline[-3\baselineskip]{\x}\quad\y
\end{document}

Note that, if you needed a "precise" top alignment, it can be achieved with

\belowbaseline[-\ht\strutbox]{\x}\quad\belowbaseline[-\ht\strutbox]{\y}