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I am currently updating my CV and using the moderncv package. When I've updated the 'Languages' section, I've encountered a problem:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}

\moderncvtheme[grey]{casual}
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}                 

\firstname{Firstname}
\familyname{Name}

\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{0.3\textwidth} % widen first column within CV 

\begin{document}

    \maketitle
    \section{Languages}
    \cvline{German}{Hallo, mein Name ist Fritz, Ich would like to haben ein Sauerkraut with Schnitzel, bitte. Und dazu ein deutsches Weizenbier. Bitte wo ist der Schlossmuseum? I know a little German, he's sitting over there.}
    \cvline{German Sign Language (DGS)}{Basics}

\end{document}

That results in: Image: result

So my question is: Is it possible to adjust the vertical alignment of the first respectively of the second column in a cvline to middle? I would like that the Basics is in the middle (vertically) of the German Sign Language (DGS). The other case (aligning the left column vertically) is not that important to me.

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In the following example I defined a \ccvitem command that behaves as \cvitem, but with vertical alignment of the columns content (instead of p{...} columns, \ccvitem uses m{...} columns available through the array package):

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}

\moderncvtheme[grey]{casual}
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}                 
\usepackage{array}

\firstname{Firstname}
\familyname{Name}

\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{0.3\textwidth} % widen second column within CV 

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\ccvitem}[3][.25em]{%
  \begin{tabular}{@{}m{\hintscolumnwidth}@{\hspace{\separatorcolumnwidth}}m{\maincolumnwidth}@{}}%
    \raggedleft\hintstyle{#2} &{#3}%
  \end{tabular}%
  \par\addvspace{#1}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

    \maketitle
    \section{Languages}
    \cvitem{German}{Hallo, mein Name ist Fritz, Ich would like to haben ein Sauerkraut with Schnitzel, bitte. Und dazu ein deutsches Weizenbier. Bitte wo ist der Schlossmuseum? I know a little German, he's sitting over there.}
    \cvitem{German Sign Language (DGS)}{Basics}
    \ccvitem{German}{Hallo, mein Name ist Fritz, Ich would like to haben ein Sauerkraut with Schnitzel, bitte. Und dazu ein deutsches Weizenbier. Bitte wo ist der Schlossmuseum? I know a little German, he's sitting over there.}
    \ccvitem{German Sign Language (DGS)}{Basics}

\end{document}

enter image description here

By the way, you could use \cvitem instead of \cvline that appears to be still around just for compatibility with older versions of moderncv.

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