{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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tabular height savebox problem
I'd like to build a tabular and next to it a graphics in the same height.
I use the following code (for minimal working purposes, I used \rule) and do not understand, what is going wrong:
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How to construct a coloured box with rounded corners
Here is the specs of the box.
Color of the bar rule should be:
\definecolor{mycolor}{rgb}{0.122, 0.435, 0.698}
Radius of the 4 corners of the box: 4pt
Thick line = 0.5pt
Text should be 6pt ...
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Calculate parbox width to make it meet the page border?
I'm using the program package to typeset my algorithms. I want my comments to have a light gray background, therefore I'm using colorbox with a parbox inside (for multi-line comments).
Now the ...
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Grey (not black) shadow box?
I would like to change the default color of a shadowbox to grey. How to do that with no problem of equation "style"/"management" inside the shadowbox ?
Thank you very much
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mdframed lines not showing properly in pdf [closed]
The boxes created with mdframed package seems to show properly when it comes to the dvi file, but when it comes to the pdf file, the outer lines don't show properly (depending on zoom factor, ...
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How good a juggler is TeX?
I recently made an adaptation of pgfpages which allows one to gather in several typeset pages and then lay them out in some layout over several physical pages (the original pgfpages only allows one ...
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Create a “yearbook-style” multi-page layout of photos
I would like to create a "yearbook-style" layout of photos in LaTeX. Each photo would have a caption and the objective would be to automatically layout the differently sized rectangular photos to ...
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stick to the right border of a box
I have a problem with a \fbox command: I want to put two right-arrow side to the box so that these two arrows start on the border of the box.
I've created the box and the two arrows but if I merge it ...
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Remove the colored section box from moderncv
Using moderncv as follows;
\documentclass{moderncv}
\moderncvtheme[black]{casual}
I'd like to remove the coloured struts/rectangles/boxes, adjacent to section headings, from the output.
Can ...
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Some assignments in the definition of \parbox
Why are these assignments necessary in the LaTeX's definition of \parbox?
\let\hss\vss\let\unhbox\unvbox
EDIT
I should have added that I wondered if the assignments will affect any in-parbox calls ...
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Why does \hss fail?
Please why does the following fail?
% \hss -> \hskip 0pt plus 1fil minus 1fil
\setbox0=\hbox{a}%
\setbox0\hbox to 10mm{\hss\unhbox0\hss}
\unhbox0
And what makes LaTeX's
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Make text block wider in A4 page
I'm struggling to fit a wider text into an A4 page. This page isn't going to be printed as a book, it is simply for internal use, so I don't mind if the text occupies more % of the page. I've tried ...
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Latex generates pdf with black end of line
I hope you can help me with this. I am having a "minor" problem with Texmaker. While creating a report some lines contain at the end a "black rectangular character". Initially I thought that was ...
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How do I (temporarily) cancel centering?
There I was, a-merrily tracing through the depths of beamer's code on the trail of the Dreaded Overprint Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea, when I came across Something Completely Different. It looked like a ...
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How to produce 5-up 3by5 index cards
I want to produce instructional 3by5 index cards. It's easy enough to produce the cards one per page, but I want to print five copies of the same car on a single sheet of 8.5by11 card stock, where it ...
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How to keep transparent fcolor box?
I am using \fcolorbox on a background that is itself colored; I don't need color inside the box, and I want its background to be transparent so that the background color shows through. The ...
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How to highlight an entire paragraph?
I'd like to highlight paragraphs such that the highlight color appears as one whole rectangle underlying the entire paragraph. I have looked around but nothing gives me the desired effect so far.
For ...
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Boxes overflow column
It's all in the subject.
I used all kinds of boxes in a towcolumn article, but whenever the boxed text is long enough, the box happily continues into the other column!
Is there a "smart" box that ...
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Set total width of TikZ node / Resize lrbox
I am currently preparing a poster for a conference and
decided to use 'beamerposter' for that purpose.
As I don't really like the standard templates I decided
to go after a design similar to this ...
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Siunitx + Junicode font: Overfull hboxes
The following MWE, using Junicode, creates 4 overfull hboxes. But any other font I tried (e.g. Linux Libertine O) creates no warnings. Any ideas?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
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Output routine and \box255
The \box255 referred to in this question applies only to the container of the latest chunk of the MVL, as cut by the page builder. Now the question: I read somewhere that
\setbox0=\vbox to ...
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Bounding box for each letter
How can I take input text and replace each character with a solid (and/or hollow) rectangle representing the bounding box for that character? In the case where two characters are closer together from ...
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What is \box255?
I'm just reading the everyshi manual, and it says:
This package provides the hooks \EveryShipout and \AtNextShipout
whose arguments are executed after the output routine has constructed
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Undo last vertical skip
I am trying to understand the sizes of boxes and skips so I decided I wanted to typeset text directly on top of some other text. I don't want to use textpos or anything like that. I am trying to ...
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Missing Item number in enumerate
You would think that I would know better than to mess with an egreg solution, but in my defense I used a DavidCarlisle solution from \setbox vs. \sbox and \savebox - What are the differences I need to ...
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Changing the refpoint of splittopskip?
The following example has the setting:
\splittopskip=.3cm
However in the output I can't see any vertical space. It seems that \vsplit starts the computing of the height at the baseline. How can I ...
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putting a box around each line of text in a paragraph
In my environment I would like to automatically make a box around each individual line of text in a paragraph so that I can operate on each line. I think this should really be done in LaTeX rather ...
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Using \usebox inside a \newcommand
I have this code:
%Abstracts
\newcommand{\@spanishabstractname}{{\bfseries Resumen}}
\newsavebox\@sabstract
\newenvironment{spanishabstract}{%
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How can I remove a vertical skip added by splittopskip?
The following example splits a box with the setting \splittopskip=2cm. Everything works as expected. However I want to remove the vertical skip add by \splittopskip=2cm some steps later.
Is there an ...
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Any way to center text within a \parbox?
Probably I'm missing something, but I'm really struggling to find an answer to this simple question:
How to center text within a \parbox?
Side note: I don't want to switch to any other environment ...
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How to add copyright notice (in a box with borders) at bottom of first page?
I want to add a box with some copyright statement at the bottom of my paper.
What is the easiest/best way to do this?
Ideally, the box would have the width of the text, and be horizontally centered.
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Superimposed Boxes in a flowchart with PStricks
I'm performing a flowchart using pstricks .
The problem is how to do superimposed Boxes (in gray and light gray ) included in the flow chart like those in the picture below .
Is there any specific ...
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How can I number paragraphs (and sections) in the margin?
I am (still) trying replicate the layout of this document.
Sections and paragraphs are all numbered, in the margin (the chapter titles do not treat this as a margin, but I can ignore that). They are ...
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Frame around text and floats
Consider the following
TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT Figure~\ref{fig:foo} TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{foo}
\caption{This is foo.}
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When I prevent hyphenation using an \mbox, the box gets pushed into the right margin
I've used \mbox to prevent LaTeX from breaking certain long words into hyphenated pairs. Now I have a new problem: the unbroken words are extending into the right margin. Here's some minimal sample ...
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Partially transparent text box
I am trying to make a poster using beamer. Can any one please reply me, my question is:
How can I make my boxes partially transparent so that my background will be visible through the boxes?
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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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Tikz diagram with stacks and box
I'm trying to make the diagram
in Tikz. I can draw the stacks by adapting this example and the box. But how can I put the description around the boxes.
Also how to add the two arrows between the ...
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Beamer: highlighting aligned math with overlay
This question led to a new package:
hf-tikz
Minimal working example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{align}
a_i + b_j = 10 & ...
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Color box with outline but some difference
\begin{boxedlaw}{6.4in}
\colorbox[HTML]{F8E0E0}{
\begin{minipage}[c]{380px}
\begin{center}
\begine{verbatim}
\# define LM_ENCA 18 //Port0
\# define LM_ENCB 17 ...
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How to create a 'fact box' or pull quote that is tied to the margins of your page?
I'd like to accomplish the following:
Ut convallis libero in -------------------
urna ultrices accumsan. | |
Donec sed odio eros. | "an important |
Donec viverra mi quis ...
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Shadowbox that breaks page
I am trying to typeset a block of text in shadowbox. The text is quite long, therefore I would like it to span across two pages where necessary. TeX will not perform a pagebreak, though.
Here is my ...
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How do you effectively debug overfull \hbox warnings?
I still haven't found out how to effectively solve Overfull \hbox (0.80913pt too wide) has occurred while \output is active warnings.
For instance, this piece of latex generates such a warning and I ...
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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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Horizontal equivalent to \raisebox?
Is there a horizontal equivalent to \raisebox? I'd like to shift some content horizontally without altering the layout of surrounding content.
Edit:
I feel bad because my question wasn't precise ...
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Handling overflows in biblatex bibliographies
I'm finally making the transition to biblatex. This is a remarkable package, and has allowed me to cut out quite a bit of old code I used to use to handle eprints, DOIs, crossref mapping problems, ...
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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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Making a fake figure that holds a text box of specified dimensions
I think I have seen this done before, but I am not sure. Is there a way to build a fake figure in LaTeX? I would like to do this while the other figures in the document render correctly.
Ideally, I ...
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Re-parse the content of a box register
I'll ask the question first and then explain why it is so. I have the following .tex file:
\documentclass{article}
\newsavebox{\myquote}
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lrbox in \newenvironment
I cannot make lrbox work if put within a \newenvironment. I'll explain with an example. If I write:
\documentclass{article}
\newsavebox{\mybox}
\begin{lrbox}{\mybox}
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