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Vertical centering of a title within a box which ignores possible accents
I am currently adapting the \part command to customize the table of contents as follows [code directly extracted from the book.cls class]:
\def\@part[#1]#2{%
\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >-2\relax%
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4
votes
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LaTeX align/distribute objects à la InDesign?
I'm trying to replicate, in LaTeX, InDesign's align and distribute tools. This is a snapshot of ID's toolbar:
Say I want first to align vertically two objects (texts, graphics, boxes,...), and ...
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votes
2answers
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\pbox vertical alignment
What's going on here, why are the TEXTs not aligned?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pbox}
\begin{document}
\hrule
\pbox[c][20pt][b]{\textwidth}{TEXT\\ Short}
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4
votes
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\resizebox shifts tikzpicture up when in a subfloat environment
Why when I try to re-scale a tikz figure using \resizebox the baseline is shifted up (regardless of how small the scale factor is), and two horizontal floats are not aligned properly.
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5
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2answers
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Setting the vertical distance in \overline
I want to overline a piece of text, but the line is too close to the number, which is not nice, so I want to add some kind of padding between the overline and the text. This is what I've made up so ...
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vote
1answer
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How to align middle-align text in a parbox?
I am trying to add a frame around a text which would be centered and vertically aligned to the middle of the box but I can only center the text.
What should I do to align the text to the middle of ...
2
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1answer
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Vertically center \makebox
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,hyperref}
\makeatletter
\def\Fld@bordercolor{0 0 0} % this works.
\makeatletter
\begin{document}
\begin{Form}
\setlength\unitlength{1cm}
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8
votes
1answer
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Why isn't a zero-width box in math mode aligned on the baseline?
I'd like to move equation labels into the margin for an article I'm working on, and the answers in Theorem Name/Numbering in Margin accomplish exactly what I'm looking for. Here is a small example:
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5
votes
1answer
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How can I align text, on my title slide, from two different boxes?
I'm trying to match a PowerPoint template, because, well, does anybody here like PowerPoint? Swapping the images out for those that are in the public domain, it looks something like this:
No, I did ...
9
votes
2answers
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Why do I need a '\vspace{0pt}` to align a table and a figure along the bottom line when using '\vbox' and '\hbox'?
Recently, I fiddled with placing a table and a figure next to each other such that their bottom parts aligned with each other. I managed to do by using \vbox and \hbox, but there is one thing that ...
9
votes
3answers
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Align text on top of a framebox
I am trying to create a series of boxes so that my students can input there id number for there final exam.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newsavebox{\idbox}
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13
votes
6answers
641 views
How to stack boxes like a vertical version of \mbox?
I would like a vertical equivalent to \mbox{} that somehow takes a sequence of boxes and stacks them on top of each other.
I'd like the resulting width to be the width of the widest box, and I'd like ...
7
votes
1answer
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Align minipage to baseline of first or last line inside minipage?
The minipage environment has options for making the top, bottom, or center of the minipage box line up with the baseline of the surrounding text. Is there a way to make it line up to the baseline of ...
1
vote
1answer
364 views
Align a parbox at the bottom of a table
Below, how can I align the \tiny text in the \parbox at the end of the right column table so that its last line is on level with the last row of the left column table?
In general, it would not be a ...
3
votes
1answer
886 views
Top-align two parboxes with tables
I am looking for a two-column solution: The left column contains one table, the right column several tables. I was thinking of using parboxes as follows:
\parbox[t]{2cm}{\vspace{0pt}
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6
votes
2answers
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Stretching a framebox over the whole page
Does anyone know how to stretch a (framed) box down to the end of the page? In effect something like
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
sometext
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5
votes
1answer
592 views
Vertically align two boxes based on their top borders, not on baseline
I have two boxes which to shows text to the left and right of a document.
\begin{minipage}[t][1in][t]{2in}
{\Huge First line box 1}\\
{\footnotesize Second line box 1}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
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6
votes
2answers
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How can I add vertical space to a beamercolorbox to make it align with another one?
I'm doing beamer slides in the 16:9 aspect ratio, so I want to use a more horizontal flow than I was when I had 4:3 slides. For example, I'd like to place a theorem and its proof side-to-side rather ...
10
votes
2answers
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Inconsistent behavior of boxes in amsmath's `gather`.
Recently I was working on a package (ytableau) and had a strange experience with the gather environment in amsmath. Namely, it screws with \vtop and, seemingly, with boxes that I reserve before ...
4
votes
2answers
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Determining the height of the current line, especially in displayed math
Is there a way to determine the height of the current line? More specifically, after the hbox comprising the current line is finalized, I'd like to determine it's height (and perhaps also depth) and ...
