14
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2answers
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A special example environment

How can I define an environment named "example" so that: can be broken over pages has a horizontal line above "Example \chap.\no" (e.g. Example 4.10), and vertical line that is spread to the whole ...
1
vote
0answers
42 views

How to hold all lines in a defined environment? [duplicate]

\def\Grammercaption{\textbf{Grammer}} \def\grammer{\bgroup\ignorespaces\Grammercaption\fontsize{10}{13pt}\selectfont} \def\grammer{\egroup} I want all lines of text within this environment stick ...
6
votes
1answer
95 views

Environment makes unnecessary page break

I have a problem with user-defined environments in LaTeX. Even though the content of an environment seems to fit, sometimes LaTeX makes an unneccessary page break after all. Here is my MWE: ...
1
vote
1answer
48 views

Show code similar to documentation of packages

I saw that several documentation packages use the environment to show macrocode long codes with page break, the example implementation of the package geometry. How do I do this? I wanted to show a ...
3
votes
1answer
115 views

How to prevent pagebreak for a custom environment?

I use the following custom environment emailHeader and macros to format an email header (credits belong to egreg). \definecolor{emailHeaderBackground}{RGB}{225,225,225} ...
4
votes
1answer
372 views

Onecolumn till end of page in twocolumn mode

I know about using the widetext environment for setting text in onecolumn mode and the multicols package for effortless switching between one- and twocolumn mode, but I think this is not too great if ...
2
votes
1answer
281 views

Prevent caption to appear on separate page

I'm using a custom listing environment which does not float taken from Code spanning over two pages with minted, inside listing with caption. The caption is done with the caption package. The ...
3
votes
1answer
141 views

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. ...
2
votes
1answer
207 views

Insert text before end of page, and at the begining of the next page

I'm putting a template together and I have created a custom command which I'm going to use to set specific margins on the text passed to its argument and a few more formatting things, like this: ...
5
votes
2answers
555 views

Environment with first paragraph in bold and no pagebreaks

I would like to setup a new environment which typesets the first paragraph in boldface, the following paragraphs in normal text, and with (possibly) no pagebreaks between the first paragraph and the ...
1
vote
1answer
306 views

minipage breaking, or some other route to layout

I'm trying to make a resume with a 2 column layout, where I'll have something like [SECTION NAME] * space * [DETAILS] For example: Work experience[spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace]Some location, 2 years, etc ...
4
votes
1answer
376 views

Quote environment with long reference at the end right – without widows

I need a quote-environment to end with source-references in a new line, flush right. Simply using \begin{quote} QUOTED TEXT \begin{flushright} SOURCE \end{flushright} \end{quote} ...
1
vote
1answer
533 views

Framebox and minipage causes white space and is not float

I have a \framebox (I don't insist on using this command) and a minipage that causes whitespace, because the drawn box is not allowing any text before or after and it itself does not break over pages. ...