I am trying to make SVG XML documents with a mixture of lines and brief text snippets (two or three words typically). The major problem I'm having is getting the text aligning with line segments.

For horizontal alignment I can use text-anchor with left, middle or right. I can't find a equivalent for vertical alignment; alignment-baseline doesn't seem to do it, so at present I'm using dy="0.5ex" as a kludge for centre alignment.

Is there a proper manner for aligning with the vertical centre or top of the text?

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