{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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Why wasn't \fbox defined to enclose its contents based on the most left, right, bottom, top parts of its contents?
Case 1: \fbox cannot enclose characters tightly
Why don't \fbox and PSTricks \psframebox enclose its contents accurately? In my opinion, every edge should exactly touch the outer part of its ...
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Attractive Boxed Equations
I often used \boxed{...} from the AMS math package to place a box around important equations. However, this approach often produces somewhat awkward looking output. Consider
\documentclass{article}
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Exact height of \hbox
I have problems controlling the exact height of an \hbox; what is wrong with this example?
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\mybox}[2]{
\fbox{ \vbox to #1cm{
\vfil\hbox to 1cm {\hfill #2 ...
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Using TikZ, how do I draw a box having an adjustable width?
I want to box text using TikZ and adjust the box width such that the text is appropriately put on different lines within the box. I also want the text on each to be centered within the box. As this is ...
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How to access toc entries with titletoc
I'm bit lost with the content of titletoc.sty. I'd like to access toc entries, meaning chapter title, section title and so on to put them in a colorbox. I think it is somewhere in the ...
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How to put part of a TikZ graphic into a box to measure its size
After adding support for tooltips today in pdfcomment (\pdftooltip) I wanted to make a TikZ example with tooltip annotations.
Within \pdftooltip the annotated element is set into a box to measure the ...
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How can I use an hbox inside a TikZ environment for text dimension measurement?
I'm trying to use an \hbox to measure the dimensions of a certain text. This is working in normal text as in the following example:
\setbox37=\hbox{this is a text that I want to measure}
text width ...
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Expandable Nested Boxes with TikZ
Could someone please post a minimal tikz example to draw this:
I am currently doing this with nested tables, but would like to see how it can be done with tikz.
The nodes would ideally have a ...
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Extra space above boxed multi-line equation
Well, this question is not new. It was asked back in 2007 in texhax, and answered at the same time.
However, I couldn't apply the patch as mentioned in the answer, so I decided to ask it here. ...
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add vdots to a listing without breaking the box
I have a problem when I try to add \vdots in an escaped string inside of a listing environment. The box is cut. How can I avoid the break of the box?
The code is this:
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Curious effect with \newsavebox
The following code fails with the error
! LaTeX Error: Command \mybox already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
despite the fact that \mybox has been ...
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Boxed equation with empheq: adding text outside box
I'm trying to have a box around my align environment, so I do the following:
\usepackage{empheq}
\begin{empheq}[box=\fbox]{align}
equations
\end{empheq}
This works fine, but I would like to have ...
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What is the command to highlight bad boxes in pdf?
I seem to remember a command to show bad boxes in a PDF when using latex, but googling is not helping me to remember.
How can I show bad boxes in my PDF?
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Parbox as an initial
Similar to my last question Initial with wrapfigure -- other idea? I would like to create a wrapped environment in which I can take a \parbox or minipage environment.
The following code shows the ...
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How do I put a paragraph in a box that is some percentage of the width of the page I'm putting it in?
I have a document that should contain a bordered box with a paragraph of explanatory text. The box's width should be a percentage of that of the page's body.
I don't want to make the box a fixed ...
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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 ...
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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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Get a box with zero depth including some text
How to get a box including some text in text mode, which depth 0pt?
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fancy text boxes like in Redhat documentation or mercurial book
I would like to have framed texts with an Icon on the side like the ones here
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.5/Release_Notes/ar01s06.html
or
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Covington Gloss in Parbox/Makebox/Minipage
I am using LyX and I'm trying to place a Convington Gloss (Covington usage) inside a \parbox, \makebox, or minipage but I get the error:
http://pastie.org/1814468
Here is the file:
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Problem with babel, ragged2e and parbox
I have the following code:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[newcommands]{ragged2e}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\parbox{9cm}{
\textsc{
Jesus a dit~: \og ...
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\fbox command destroys margin
I included a graphic the following way:
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{questionnaire1.png}
Then I changed it so that a frame is drawn around the graphic:
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Underfull hbox with \hbox to <dimen> but not with \halign
When using the \halign primitive, cells in the same column all have the same width. Hence, if one entry is very large (abcdefg below), the others will be stretched to the same size. If an entry ...
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Why is \baselineskip not inserted before an \unvbox?
It seems that \setbox0=\vbox{\hbox{abc}}\unvbox0 is not equivalent to \hbox{abc}: the former does not insert a \baselineskip in the following situation.
\vbox{%
\hbox{XY}%
\hbox{abc}%
...
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Ovalbox with fixed corner diameter
I wish to use \Ovalbox with a fix corner diameter.
How can it be done?
The problem is when I got a lot of text in the box, the corners run over the text.
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amsthm environment and colorbox
I'd like to customize the amsthm command a little bit but I cannot find the relevant lines in the (undocumented?) .sty.
How can I put a colorbox on the name of the environment
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\fbox inside listings
I am trying to highlight a specific line inside a listing with listinline. The code I am currently using looks like this:
\begin{lstlisting}[escapechar=!]
class A {
void m() {
B b = ...
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Set \strut height
I'm using quite a few \colorbox and \colorfbox in a document but they weren't sitting at the same heights (because some words contained g and this seemed to push the box down.
The solution I found ...
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Create empty box sized according to imaginary content
In LaTeX, is it possible to create an empty box that has exactly the dimensions of some content given?
Example:
\emptybox{abc}
would insert an empty box of the size as if "abc" was printed there.
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How can the \textmu symbol be used in math mode and resize correctly?
I wish to use an upright mu character in various places in my document, and so I've put the following in my preamble:
% textcomp, for its upright mu
\usepackage{textcomp}
% some user macros
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Change border color of a \boxed equation?
I recently asked this question. The solution worked for me but I have a problem. cropped images are as small as possible. I would like to have a gif that bounds to borders of box of the equation. so I ...
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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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Preparing a beamer poster: how to create a border box?
I am preparing a poster with LaTeX using beamerposter, following the examples of the beamerposter site. In these examples, the title is themed with a background color. I would like to have the title ...
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Highlight an equation within an align environment
I would like to define a command that puts a red box around an equation with yellow highlighting. I have the basics working pretty well. What I am unable to figure out is:
How to keep the alignment ...
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Flush a left-flushed box right
I would like to put an address in my document as follows:
| |
| Name |
| Street #|
| City |
| ...
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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 ...
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Text in subscript
For my text-in-mathmode needs in LaTeX, I use \mbox. However, it does not seem to behave well in subscripts. How can I write text that adjusts its height?
$ 3 \mbox{dB} = f_{ 3 \mbox{dB} } $
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Stacking two hboxes
I am trying to write the macro \foo{...}{...} that creates an hbox made up of both \hbox{#1} and \hbox{#2}, such that both hboxes are stacked one on top of the other. The width of the resulting hbox ...
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Vertical spacing of framed environment
Here is an MWE that shows the problem:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{framed}
\setlength{\FrameSep}{3pt}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{document}
\fbox{Foo}
\fbox{Foo}
\begin{framed}
Foo
...
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\parbox “textwidth” for the combined width of a subset of table cells
I would like the parbox width of the text in a multicolumn to be calculated automatically from the combined width of the cells that the multicolumn spans. (Their width will vary in different copies of ...
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Documentclass user macros
I wanted to create a documentclass for a complex template. I ran into the following problem:
I want to have user macros to store content in boxes which are then displayed by the template in the ...
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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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votes
1answer
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Table cell overflow
Consider this document example:
\documentclass[a4paper,draft]{article}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{tabularx,multirow}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{hmargin=0cm}
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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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Measuring height of fixed-width text box
Suppose some text is put inside a fixed width box. The text will then continue in vertical direction. How can you measure the total height of that text?
Original text:
text text text text text
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Why doesn't \settoheight of \parbox work?
Consider the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper]{letter}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{printlen}
\newsavebox{\foobox}
\newlength{\fooboxheight}
\savebox{\foobox}{
...
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votes
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Problem with box width
I have the following code, that draws a dashed box:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{arydshln,paralist}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\newenvironment{mybox}[1]
...
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votes
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How do I backcolor in verbatim?
I have some code I want to typeset as verbatim (lstlisting would be ok as well) - but I want to highlight some parts of it via a different background color, i.e. something like this:
\begin{verbatim}
...
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votes
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Create a series of connected, list-filled boxes (flowchart?)
I would like to create a series of horizontally linked 'text boxes', with arrows between each one. Each box will contain some text (probably a list with a title). I would like it to look something ...
