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In this image, since there are no characters like g,y in the first cell, there seems to be a misalignment between the round brackets and the text CBSE. Is there any way to automatically center text like the following image? I edited the following in GIMP and moved the text CBSE slightly down, to align it vertically. Is there any way to do the same in LaTeX?

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Code snippet from my class file

\begin{tabular}{|M{0.295\textwidth}|c|c|c|} 
    \hline
    Program & Institute & Percent/CGPA & Year of Completion \\
    \hline
    #1 & #2 & #3 & #4
    \hline
\end{tabular}
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  • Please add some example code (MWE) to help us help you.
    – TeXnician
    Jul 18, 2017 at 8:38
  • Added the code snippet from the class file. #1, #2, #3, #4 are filled in the main TeX file. Here, #2 is XII (CBSE)
    – Karthik Nishanth
    Jul 18, 2017 at 8:47
  • You replace one problem with another: it quite visible that XII and CBSE are not aligned.
    – Bernard
    Jul 18, 2017 at 9:49
  • Hi, the intended behavior was that if a cell was completely without bottom glyphs as in g,y, it should center the entire cell's contents. I was too lazy and just moved the CBSE alone.
    – Karthik Nishanth
    Jul 18, 2017 at 9:52

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This is not a bug. It is the intended behaviour. The parentheses account for possible descenders.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
(CBSE)
\end{document}

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If you want to adjust vertical alignment use \raisebox.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\raisebox{.1333ex}{(}CBSE\raisebox{.1333ex}{)}
\end{document}

enter image description here

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  • Is there a way to eliminate the space automatically if there are no descenders in a word?
    – Karthik Nishanth
    Jul 18, 2017 at 9:04
  • @KarthikNishanth No, unless you are willing to write something like \parenthesize{CBSE}.
    – Henri Menke
    Jul 18, 2017 at 9:10
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You can obtain this result using small caps in a larger font, adding some negative kerning if you're perfectionist:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

XII (CBSE)

 \large\textsc{xii \kern-0.1em(\kern-0.07em cbse\kern-0.05em)}

 \Large\textsc{xii (cbse)}

\end{document}

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