{boxes} are the units used by (La)TeX to construct a page by pasting them together horizontally or vertically. A single character from a font is a box, as are the lines of type and the eventual page.
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Create two small box after text? [duplicate]
how should i declare a command for two small boxes after text in every line? based from this link Create a two column static small box. I need to remove the automatic printing of its numbers. What ...
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hf-tikz doesn't box around equation
In TikZ based \boxed construct is causing pdflatex to hang it was suggested to use hf-tikz instead of manually using tikz. The documentation indicates that this package doesn't work properly for tall ...
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Why does xcolor not like \fbox (or vice versa)?
This document would not compile and a rather cryptic ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted) pops up. Here's the MnWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\renewcommand{\fboxrule}{0.9pt}
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\vbox with some extra space below
I don't understand why when using \vbox of a certain height, there is some extra space added below it.
I'm trying - towards grid typesetting - to put for example graphics in the vbox of a certain ...
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Set picture size to size of a given box
I would like to use the picture mode in latex, but need to set the size of the drawing region to the size of some other box. I would normally do
\begin{picture}(max_hor, max_ver)(ll_hor, ll_ver)
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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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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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How I can create a text box and place it in the footer [closed]
I want to create a text box and place it in the center of footer area. Is there any simple way to do it?
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Overfull hbox warning when including graphics
I'm getting the error:
Overfull \hbox (14.34999pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 374--375
[][] |
when including graphics files. The files are in EPS format. Below is an example:
\begin{figure}
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PDF annotations: How to know if “a box is empty”?
Extract from dvipdfmx documentation:
Warning: No annotation will be constructed if the content between pdf:bann and pdf:eann is an empty box.
My MWE (via xelatex):
\documentclass{article}
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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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Savebox and usebox unexpected behaviour for the box with index 10
I have found that when saving and later using boxes the box with index 10 behaves differently to all other.
Here is simple demo that shows different behaviour. In preamble I define this commands:
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Yet another overfull \hbox question
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy
eirmod tempor ...
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Box that behaves like vbox but its width is that of its content?
I need a box that fulfils these conditions:
It can contain multiple lines (and paragraphs) of text (unlike \hbox)
A line that is longer then \textwidth is split to the next line (like \parbox, \vbox ...
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reproduce section at different position
I would like to reproduce a \section at a later position, with the same number as at the original position. I tried
\newsavebox{\meinebox}
\savebox{\meinebox}[80mm][l]{\section{Hier}}
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draw a box for part of a matrix in math environment [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Highlight elements in the matrix
I have a big matrix as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\[
\tilde{M}_{R+1,N}=
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How to rotate text in multirow table?
I have a big table with a problem, when I want to rotate the text in a \multirow cell, the text is placed outside and is bigger than the dimensions of the cell, I took some advice from here, ...
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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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How to avoid overfull \hbox warning? [closed]
The following code compiles but throws this error/warning :
Overfull \hbox (7.65448pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 21--21
Visually there is nothing wrong though, and the box does not cross the ...
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A few words in a coloured/grey background box
How can I write a few words with a grey highlighting box in the background, as shown in the picture below ("TEXT 4")?
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Color box with rounded corners around a fragment of a formula
Is there any way in TeX to highlight some part of a formula with a box having colored background and rounded corners?
At present, I need to export such formulas into an image, add those highlight ...
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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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Using tabularx, multirow, and parbox for line-wrapping
I am using a multirow inside a tabularx, but because the multirow doesn't wrap, I am putting the multirow's text inside a parbox environment:
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}XX@{}} \toprule
blah ...
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Reasons for saving a box?
I've been reading through a number of answers that use \newsavebox to save the contents of a box. As far as I can tell it's a workaround for fragility of some kind. Is that right? If not, what is the ...
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How can I have a verbatim text in specific sized box?
I am trying to typset the following
\resizebox{0.95\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{verbatim}
require( "lattice" )
require( "grid" )
\end{verbatim}
}
I have a lot more to add to this box, and it needs ...
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tcolorbox - list of listings?
In a book with figures, tables and listings, I figured out that all listings and some tables and figures look better when presented in a tcolorbox. The book has the usual tables of contents:
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Creating uniformly sized boxes around text
I want to put individual words in to boxes next to each other. I've used the \framebox command, but this has produced different sized boxes around each word. How could I get all the boxes to be the ...
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Box in a theorem environment
I am solving some exercises for my master program. I am including question and answer in a theorem environment. I would also like to have the question inside a gray box. The thing is that the gray box ...
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Hyphenate typewriter / avoid overfull \hboxes in code, using fontspec and XeTeX
I would like to avoid overfull \hboxes as a result of inline code, inserted with \textt{foo} or \ttfamily, e.g. in this MWE:
% compile with xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[textwidth=4cm, ...
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Errors with multicolumn-equations inside tabular (inside tcolorbox)
I try to rebuild a fairly complicated math-table, and I'm almost satisfied with the result. The MWE actually compiles to the table I want, but with error messages. When I include the table in my real ...
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Can't get rid of strange underfull \hbox with TikZ fit library [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Badbox from PGF layer using fit
This peace of code is compiled with 'Underfull \hbox (badness 1484) in paragraph at lines 23--23' message. Line 23 is \node[draw, inner ...
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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 ...
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remove box borders
I have the following code, in which I fit three logos into a box:
\setlength\fboxsep{0pt}
\setlength\fboxrule{0.5pt}
\fbox{
\begin{minipage}{14em}
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Create a two column static small box
how can I create a new command to make a static true and false as labels of the first and two columns. This columns are lanes of small boxes. This small boxes would depend on the questions created. If ...
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Generate a square and line
how should i write a command to automatically place a box on the left side wherein this box can contain text and beside the box are lines which depends on an argument.
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Persuading (la)tex “silently to go beyond the envelope of 'good taste' ” to avoid an overfull hbox
My understanding, based on reading this website, is that (la)tex performs at most three passes when trying to typeset a paragraph: one based on \pretolerance, one based on \tolerance, and one based on ...
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How to output the choices of the questions inside a box?
I plan to create a command where I can use to output the choices inside the box and above the list of questions but its a know how. This is a sample output of what i am saying. I will use the ...
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Aligning three small box together with a text
I made through creating the boxes inside a box with help of an expert by this link Is three boxes inside a box posibble in latex
Now im being troubled on how will i put into command to align this ...
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Are three boxes inside a box possible?
I am making a yes or no question inside a box and I have difficulty on creating the command for it. Would you mind to help me make something that will output this:
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How to create command for a box where text inside the box can automatically adjust?
I have a problem on how I can make my command right. I created a box where the text will be inside it when used but something went wrong when I prolong the text it turn out like this:
Code:
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(Why) Can't we get 'fully expandable' versions of every command?
I'm just starting to figure out what 'expandable' means in LaTeX, and why it is useful to have commands that expand as far as possible. In particular:
If you want to \typeout some string to the log ...
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What are the different kinds of boxes in (La)TeX?
I've seen hbox, vbox, mbox, parbox and others used in various code samples. What are the different kinds of box in (La)Tex? Which are suitable for use in LaTeX, as opposed to plain TeX?
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multicols within colorbox
i'm trying to get a gray background for an entire multicols environment and get errors with this "minimal" working example:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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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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Create a static box in LaTeX
How can I make a command to automate the creation of a box? This box would enclose texts or statements, questions and the like when the command is used. Example:
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Is it possible to remove (or otherwise nullify) a whatsit node from a box?
I am aware that it is not generally possible to modify the contents of a box (as per http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/49903/17427), though I believe it is sometimes possible to "unbox" material and hack ...
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How to box the correct answer in Exam class?
I have tried using the following code:
\documentclass[12pt]{exam}
\CorrectChoiceEmphasis{\mbox{}}
\begin{document}
\begin{questions}
\question Who is an idot?
\begin{choices}
\choice Not the writer ...
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hbox out of margin, beamer
I wanna put a round image in a presentation il LaTeX out from the margin. I would like to show it just as a 1/4 of the image in the left bottom corner.
I tried:
\begin{frame}
\tableofcontents
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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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Text between two lines
i'd like to write words that fit between two lines.
i found the following code:
\documentclass[parskip,paper=a4]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{calc}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}
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