\ShortStack Align

Question

Some sentence.... \shortstack[]{a\\b\\c} it produces like

                  a
                  b
Some sentence.... c

But I would like to produce something like this

                      a
Some Sentence...      b
                      c

I want to align the "Some sentence....." with be instead of c.

Could it be that you would like to get the sentence and the stack vertically centered to each other? Aligning to b would mean that the stack, as it is, won't be centered.

morbusg · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-12 18:44:25Z

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A matrix perhaps:

Some sentence.... $\matrix{ a \cr b \cr c }$
\bye

answered Dec 12 '10 at 18:44

morbusg
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	Package amsmath Error: Old form `\matrix' should be \begin{matrix}. See the amsmath package documentation for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help. l.745 Some sentence.... $\matrix{ a \cr b \cr c }$ When I put in a matrix this is the error I get ---- Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ l.745 Some sentence.... \begin{matrix} $\matrix{ a \cr b \cr c }$\end{matrix} ? – Aku Dec 12 '10 at 19:34
	@Aku: use `\begin{matrix}...\end{matrix}` within $...$ , not outside math mode, then morbusg's suggestion works. (Without amsmath it works in original syntax.) – Stefan Kottwitz♦ Dec 12 '10 at 20:53
	$\begin{matrix}\matrix{ a \cr b \cr c } \end{matrix}$ This is the error I got Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } l.768 $\begin{matrix}\matrix{ a \cr b \cr c } – Aku Dec 12 '10 at 22:29
	@Aku: You want `Some sentence.... $\begin{matrix} a \\ b \\ c \end{matrix}$`. (It works like all the other environments, pairing a `\begin{envname}` with and `\end{envname}`.) – Antal S-Z Dec 12 '10 at 22:55

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