Questions tagged [columns]
{columns} is specifically about columns in {tables} (though often the latter tag will suffice). If your question is about {two-column} documents or the {multicol} package, use the respective tag instead.
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Split beamer frame into two horizontal subframes, each with a different set of environments
I am trying to divide my slide into two horizontal parts, the top part containing a mathematical expression on the top left side, and the bottom part containing two columns, listing the applications ...
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`tabular` - include column separator only between non-empty cells
I'm writing up a BNF definition using a custom environment, which is just a tabular with some specified column separators:
\begin{tabular}{r @{$\in$} c @{:=} l}
...
\end{tabular}
where the left ...
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Rowcolor overhang with makecell
When I trim the sides of tables using @{}, the \rowcolor hangs over the sides. I've fixed this with <{\kern-\tabcolsep} on the first and last column (according to this question). However, if \...
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Table fontsize too small after using \resizebox
Initially, I had the problem of my table not fitting the column width of the page however after a \resizebox that was corrected however at the cost of the font size, is there a way to fix this? Thank ...
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Blank page added after pagecolumns in ConTeXt
This question arose in the comments in Ragged-bottom footnotes in ConTeXt; I have since reported the issue to the ConTeXt mailing list, but I have not heard anything back so far, so I decided I should ...
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The text in the columns of a table to be aligned to the right
I have a table defined as
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
%\documentclass[man]{apa}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,latexsym}
\usepackage[dviwin]{graphicx}
\linespread{1.6}
\title{}
\begin{document}
\...
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How to align text in a longtable column that has fixed column widths to the right?
How do I align the text that I have in the last column to the right? I checked several similar questions and they all use tabularx. However, I wish to use longtableonly since my table spans multiple ...
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Specify the width and alignment of tabular column at the same time
Consider this example:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{p{3cm}c}
A0 & A1\\
BBB00 & BBB111
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
The output is
Using p{3cm} allowed me to ...
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How to combine longtable and column-specifiers like >{$}r<{$}?
How do I combine the functionality of the environment "longtable" (a table can span multiple pages, with automatic copies of the caption and header row after each page-break) and column-specifiers ...
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Trouble fitting the last column of a landscape table
I am having trouble getting the last column of my Latex table to fit in landscape orientation.
This is my setup and code for the relevant table -
\documentclass[12 pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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Staggering Columns using paracol
I am attempting to create "parallel" text that is temporal in nature. For example, the second author wrote the beginning, the first author wrote the second section, the fourth author wrote the third ...
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How do I apply different aligning options in different columns in a table?
I'm trying to figure out how I get different aligning for different columns in my table.
I want the first and second column to be left-aligned and to the top of each cell (in case it turns out that ...
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How to fix this block matrix so that it can have same spacing between its columns
\begin{document}
\[
\left(
\begin{array}{ccccccccc}
& & & & -1 & -1 & \dots & \dots & -1
\\
&&& & 0 & 0 & \dots & \dots & 0
\\
& \...
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Easiest way to change altacv.cls to a single column
I really like some of the basic features of the AltaCV template (https://github.com/liantze/AltaCV) but don't like the 2 column layout. What'd be the easiest way to change the template to a single ...
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How can a new column type be defined, which feeds the column's contents (embraced) to a command? [duplicate]
I am typesetting a document using the package tipa, and it happens often that the contents of each cell in a column of a table are notionally IPA and need to be enclosed between \textipa{ and }. So I ...
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blank space in a 2 column templae below a paragraph occupies whole column
I am having following section
\section{How something works }
{paragraph}user uses an open source library\cite{user31} which can
\begin{enumerate}
\item Detect unusual firewall behaviours between ...
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m{} column in tabular doesn't center text in third(last) column
This is such a simple thing and should just work, but I don't understand why it is not. I have a simple table with three columns and two rows. I wanted the text in each cell in the first row to be ...
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Proper way to create an aside/sidebar environment
So this is an issue I've had for awhile when learning about LaTeX and using it to create my resume/cv.
When I refer to a sidebar, I'm mean more like how it is done in these templates:
Example 1
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Uneven starting column alignments with large columns
The following produces four tables, which I boxed to make them clearer.
The bottom two boxes are of even starting heights, but the top two are not.
I would like for the top pair of boxes to start at ...
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Beamer with columns, verbatim and overlay
The following example works fine:
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\begin{columns}
\column{.5\textwidth}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
\item First
\item Second
\end{itemize}
\column{.5\...
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Separating enumerate number and content into two boxed columns
I'm trying to recreate something similar to this:
Where the numbering is encased inside its own box, and the content in another.
I know I could probably use a table but I was wondering if there is ...
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Issue with using \onecolumn with ReVTeX
I'm new to LaTeX and I'm trying to switch from double column to single column in a report I am working on. The single column is for the appendices. I've been trying to use the \onecolumn command, but ...
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revtex4-1 onecolumn: Remove the extra long blanks before/after eqnarray
In revtex4-1 onecolumn, I find the extra-long blanks (sentence breaks) before/after eqnarray, like this
question: How to remove the extra long blanks before/after eqnarray?
\documentclass[11pt, ...
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Latex: Table: Define column width relatively
With this code I can divide all 4 columns in equal withs.
{@{}*{4}{p{.25\textwidth}@{}}}
How can I say (for example):
column 1: 20 %
column 2: 30 %
column 3: 25 %
column 4: 25 %
Please give a ...
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ConTeXt: column breaks (reduce balancing penalty)
I'm trying to prevent ugly breaks of the items inside a \startcolumns...\stopcolumns environment:
\setuppapersize[letter]
\setuplayout
[ topspace=0.5in
, height=10in
, backspace=0.75in
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Align columns with numbers by decimal point and ratio symbol (colon :)
I want to achieve alignment by decimal number AND the colon (:) ratio symbol, similar to what is shown in the code below as opposed to what is shown in the figure. I would welcome any suggestions for ...
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Align sentences beneath each other. Like ruler in word!
Essentially, I want to be able align the non-bold sentences underneath each other. In word I would use a ruler. As you would if you ignored all the underlines
Canonical Ensemble: System with fixed ...
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Headers on a table with two double column of letters with arrows between
I want two double columns of letters with arrows between. The headers should be centred above each of the double columns:
Header 1 Header 2
A B <=> C D
E F <=> ...
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Single column elsarticle
I cannot seem to figure out how to make a single column elsarticle. I would like to enforce my whole document to just use one column instead of two.
What am I missing?
\documentclass[5p,10pt,times]{...
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How can I edit the following command to print two columns?
and I found a pretty template, but the problem is that one part of this is too big and I want to split into two columns.
The part when the CV template make an entrylist is the following:
\setlength{\...
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Lateral Column only for comments or pictures
How can I create a document (book) with a lateral column for comments or show pictures like the example? It´s not a simple two column document! The main text is showed only in the "main" column. The ...
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Aligning multiple "decimal points" in table column (by expanding one column into multiple?)
I'm working a document with values that have multiple "decimal points" (historical units & currencies) and am trying to create a column type that can align these properly (like siunitx does for ...
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Two different sets of information per column?
Is there any way to create a two column document that has two different sets of material per column?
To be clear, I am not talking a a simple \columnbreak, but rather, you import one bit of text and ...
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Aligning two separate tabulations
I have multiple tabulations one after another, each divided into two columns. I want to have the left column centered about the same first column width, the divider between columns to be at the same ...
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ConTeXt: Suppress blank page when text reaches column's end
Background
When text reaches the end of a column, it triggers inserting a blank page. This does not happen when text reaches the end of a page outside of a columnar environment.
Problem
In the ...
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ConTeXt: Suppress blank page in asymmetrical multicolumn layout
Background
Creating a custom multi-column layout having columns that differ in width.
Problem
This question's problem is mentioned but not addressed in a previous answer:
Setting page=yes causes ...
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Formatting table to show a column name and the column text aligned
I am trying to unsuccessfully create a table. The second row namely "LET [ms]" and the column content (A,B,C,D) are not aligned. I added two "&" characters between the "Frame" and "LET [ms]" ...
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Hyphenate a single word in a column [duplicate]
I would like the first word (i.e. Programming) to be hyphenated, but it is not and it is running into the column beside it. I'm thinking that since it is a standalone word, LaTeX is trying to avoid ...
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Table cell as one of several arguments of a command issued via >{} and <{} [duplicate]
Is an extension of this answer or this answer possible such that an additional argument to the issued command is passed directly without defining a new command or macro for each possible argument?
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Insert { in > array preamble and } in < array preamble [duplicate]
The > and < preamble options of the array package (and possibly other table packages) allow automatically inserting text and commands before and after each cell of a column, respectively.
Can ...
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How do I break a large number of subequations into two columns?
I have 9, 3x3 matricies that I want to have arranged into two columns so that they do not take up a large, narrow strip in the middle of the page. This is what I have so far:
\begin{subequations}
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Two column, with a text box in the center wrapping on both sides
I am looking for a format that allows two columns, with a text box in the center of the page; that is in fact three boxes. Wrapfig does not do the job because it only let text to flow on one side.
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How I can introduce two columns with images and explications (no captions)?
This is mi idea:
Before text, then you get 2 columns with titles, pictures and descriptions.
Thanks in advance!
Mi try:
\usepackage{parcolumns}
\raggedright
\begin{parcolumns}{2}
\colchunk{\...
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Spacing in a template-like format
I'm trying to make a beamer presentation on how to solve various linear equations through a 4-step process. Because of the template-like format of how I want the slides to look, I was thinking of ...
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Column lines not displaying when column type is specified (using pgfplotstable)
I am in need of assistance, please. I have spent several hours trying to solve this problem, but I can't see where it might be. I'm new to pgfplotstable, but not new to LaTeX, but I am definitely at ...
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In a tabular, how to set a cell text aligned on the right and the text in the below cell aligned with the beginning of the above text
I'd like to obtain a thing similar to the following image
As you see the word "Candidato:" is aligned with the beginning of the name "Giovanni Bianchi", While "Giovanni Bianchi" is aligned to the ...
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Incrementing and \hrulefill problems in headers
I am having two problems but I think they might be related. MWE below. I am compiling using LuaLaTeX.
There are two issues here. First of all, I have a counter macro which increments by 1. When I ...
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How to vertically align the three columns of my table top, top, middle
I would like the formulae in the third column to be vertically aligned to the middle, i.e. the formulae should be vertically at the middle of the two lines of the descriptions.
\documentclass{article}...
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tabular column size width not fitting all content
I am using the following code, based on How to use letter with SI unit in table using siunitx to create a table.
How can i make the column wide enouth to fit the content. Whats the best way for the ...
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ConTeXt: Cross References to Column Numbers
In a two-column layout, I need to create references returning the line and column numbers of the target referred to.
As there does not seem to exist a column counter, the column numbers displayed in ...
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