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Multiple vertical rules along text – by using \leaders?
I want to draw individual vertical rules on the left side of consecutive paragraphs/vertical boxes covering the vertical skips. In my case for every paragraph/vertical box, there can be different ...
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Background color of breakable box: removing thin blank lines
The purpose of the mybox environment in the following document is to
typeset a box in a yellow background. The box may be split by page
breaks. The algorithm used is similar to the one found in the ...
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afterpage + list = missing \item
I'm trying to use the afterpage package to automatically insert text at the top of each page (please see my other question Section reminders at the top of each page?) but I'm having trouble.
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Can I get at stuff in “current page” or “recent contributions”?
When I compile the following,
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\AtBeginShipout{\showlists}
\showboxdepth\maxdimen
\showboxbreadth\maxdimen
\usepackage{lipsum}
...
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votes
1answer
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boxes spanning several pages
I defined some time ago a box environment with the following features:
It has a frame-color and a background color
It stores the marginnotes, if any, and restore them at the end of the box. I use ...
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2answers
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Two paragraphs side-by-side and page breaks
I have a little mind puzzle here. This idea was bugging me since I saw a question about breaking cells in a table on a page break. Let's think of a table row that's built from cells that are ...
3
votes
1answer
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Breaking framed boxes across pages - or, a better design for a homework problem set?
My school's recommended homework document class file uses a boxedminipage to typeset problem statements so they appear in a box. However, this has the unfortunate consequence that they can't be broken ...
8
votes
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Breakable vboxes
In Plain TeX how can I make vboxes breakable, and can I handle/measure them separately? What I'm trying to do, is that I have a portion of text, that is treated separately (no indention, narrower, ...
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votes
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How to box verbatim to prevent page break?
If I try
\mbox{
\begin{verbatim}
Some looooong text...
\end{verbatim}
}
Then some compilation errors occur.
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votes
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How to continue the framed text box on multiple pages?
I am using framed package to create text boxes using begin{framed} and end{framed}. My problem is that my framed box goes on for two pages, and I don't want the text box to complete itself at the end ...
