[texhax] centering a box on the margin line

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Peter King writes:
 > There must be an easy way to do this in plain TeX, but I haven't come up
 > with one. I have a rectangular graphic (actually a logo in an .eps file)
 > that I want to center on the line of the left margin, thusly:
 > 
 > ============================================
 >   _____
 >   | X |
 >   |_Y_|
 >     
 >     |Blah blah margin line on the left
 >     |More text flush to margin line
 >     |Even more text and random babbling
 > 
 > ============================================
 > Is there a straightforward way to do this? I suppose I could negative kern
 > the epsfbox into the margin, or something like that. But surely centering
 > a box on a given line (the margin line) must be an Old Solved Problem. 
 > Any help appreciated, even pointers on where to look. Thanks.

\noindent\hbox to 0pt{\hss your graphic\hss}

\hss is horizontal shrinkable space.

Regards,
  Reinhard

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha			              Phone: +49-511-4592165
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover	                      mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------