CeTZ: Alignment of Content

[Fozzy29]

I have been using CeTZ besides Fletcher for some time now, but there are just a few small hiccups with the integration of these two packages. I have reflected that the only real reason I have been using Fletcher is because it provides a very nice system of vertical alignment, with its ‘flexible grid’. Would it be possible to emulate a similar sort of system with purely CeTZ?

As below, the size of each column adjusts to fit the content.

I have attempted to use a grid to manually accomplish this sort of thing, however, the inflexibility is a serious hindrance in comparison to Fletcher.

Functionality that is not required:

• Drawing edges between ‘nodes’/’cells’, I am fine with having each cell sit isolated from each other in this way
• Debug utilities like Fletcher
• Dynamically creating ‘rows’ of content (I am happy to have to pre-define this).
• Some ‘beautiful’ syntax; I am happy with however verbose this happens to be

I was hoping there would be some simple CeTZ-native way to accomplish this, but after reading through the docs it does not seem like there is, so I'm putting this request forward to hopefully improve the 'completeness' of the CeTZ package.

NOTE: I am not asking for "porting all Fletcher content into CeTZ" like has been done in the past, but rather some nice middle-ground that uses a more CeTZ-native syntax/style.

[johannes-wolf]

Related #959