Vertical align (top) graphic and top of text-line

I want to align the top of an image, and the top of a line of text. Below is a MWE with the current setup (using a placeholder "graphic" but the effect seems the same) and the desired behavior.

documentclassarticle usepackagegraphicx begindocument beginminipage[t]0.5textwidth %includegraphics[height=0.4in]theimage.png rule0.95textwidth0.5in endminipage% beginminipage[t]0.5textwidth sometext to fill the line endminipage enddocument

MWE behavior:

MWE behavior

Desired behavior:

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– marmot
Aug 22 at 4:00

Isn't this what you want? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29143/…
– Oleg Lobachev
Aug 22 at 12:45

thanks to both of you, I was having trouble locating these resources by searches. Should have searched harder I guess.
– amoodie
Aug 22 at 13:56

3 Answers
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A simple way to fix your problem is by adding vspace0pt as soon as a minipage is created:

vspace0pt

Output

documentclassarticle usepackagegraphicx begindocument beginminipage[t]0.5textwidth vspace0pt %includegraphics[height=0.4in]theimage.png rule0.95textwidth0.5in endminipage% beginminipage[t]0.5textwidth vspace0pt sometext to fill the line endminipage enddocument

This also feels a little hacky (similar to my answer below) but it works. Can you explain why adding the zero-height vspace works in this case?
– amoodie
Aug 22 at 13:57

You could use adjustbox, as marmot suggested in his comment.

adjustbox

Moreover, instead of using minipages, you could use a tabularx.

minipage

tabularx

documentclassarticle usepackagetabularx usepackagegraphicx usepackage[export]adjustbox begindocument noindentbegintabularxlinewidth@X@hspace2ptX@ includegraphics[height=0.4in, width=0.475textwidth,valign=t]example-image & sometext to fill the line \ endtabularx enddocument

enter image description here

A potential workaround I found is that if I know the height of the image, I can add a negative vspace. This seems kind of hacky though and I'm wondering if there is a cleaner solution

documentclassarticle usepackagegraphicx begindocument beginminipage[t]0.5textwidth % includegraphics[height=0.4in]theimage.png% rule0.95textwidth4baselineskip endminipage% beginminipage[t]0.5textwidth vspace*-4baselineskip sometext to fill the line endminipage enddocument

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