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Centering a wide table that is defined inside a NewEnviron
I am trying to centre a table with a lot of content whose width is larger than the text width. The problem is that I am defining the table environment in the preamble so I can reuse it, and this seems ...
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Footnote in tabular environment
It seems as if footnotes would have only a problem with the table environment but in my minimal example non of those answers
Footnotes in Tabulars?
Footnote in table
seem to work for the tabular ...
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Can't include a 'tabu' inside \newenvironment with cells in the postamble
I'm trying to include a tabu inside a new definition of an environment but it fails if the postamble (enddef) of the new environment includes tabu's contents, so cells. With tabular or tabular* works. ...
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LaTeX Error: Environment table undefined
When I try to compile a latex file, I get the following error:
LaTeX Error: Environment table undefined.
I think the line that is causing the problem is: \begin{table}
Does anybody know how I can ...
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Defining a newenvironment with optional caption
I am trying to define a new table environment with optional caption. However, if I don't pass it the caption, I am still getting the "Table 1.1:" below the table. What am I missing here? Thanks. ...
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newenvironment tabularx and begin center
I try to create a custom env, based on a tabular. I try to make a \begin{center} before my tabular to remove identation at the beginning of the tabular, but he tells me
"File ended while scanning ...
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Using tabularx in a custom environment - “misplaced \noalign”
Question
Currently, I'm trying to shorten the creation of small tabularx-tables with pre-defined headers, but somehow, trying to use the tabularx-environment, even though I used the \tabularx and ...
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Patch tabular environment with colorbox
I'm trying to quickly add a colored background using colorbox to all tables as shown in this answer. While I could just update all the TeX by hand, I am trying to patch the tabular environment to ...
4
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2answers
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I can't use & tabs in the `align` environment while using it inside a custom environment
I've got a custom environment made for problem sets, and it uses a tabular to align the question number and question body. When I try to use & to group parts of an equation together - like if I ...
7
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1answer
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Custom environment with fancy text indentation
I am trying to typeset text by breaking it into smaller cameos, numbering each cameo, and putting a heading. See below for an example of how I want the typeset text to look.
The code with which I ...
2
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1answer
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Left aligned multi line equations and \newenvironment
I'm building a table of integrals, for my own use. I need simple things: equations must be left aligned, sometimes I need alignment on the equal symbol and to save space sometimes I need 2 equations ...
2
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Create Custom tabular
Is there a way to make something like tabular such that in a loop we get each column in a line and render them in a custom format. Like this
\begin{custom_tabular}
l1c1 & l1c2 & l1c3 \\
l2c1 ...
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1answer
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Safeguard an environment against tabular mode
The semantics of a given environment require that it is typeset inside a minipage if it is used inside a tabular. If I add the minipage declaration for a positive check for "internal" mode in the ...
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2answers
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Custom environments with multicolumn header
I tried to create an environment that creates a tabular frame around the content of the environment.
For instance:
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Team sheet} \\
\hline
...
2
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1answer
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Tabular: set a line between each row in \newenvironment
I have created a particular table with 3 columns using \newenvironment.
Now I want to put a line between each row and from the 2th to the 3th column.
I know it is possible to add \cmidrule{2-3} at the ...
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How to create new table environment
I am working on a book that has many many such tables. Is there a way to create shortcut for the code shown below. I want to make table caption a variable, because in the MWE shown below except ...
2
votes
1answer
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Custom environment to accept \item
How can I create an environment that takes items in a way similar to lists?
Example:
\begin{myEnv}
\item{AAA}{BBB}
\item{CCC}{DDD}
\end{myEnv}
I'd like the above do something like
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colortbl: new environments and how to apply \expandafter
This is a followup question from one asked by Andrew Howard. After some discussion, it became clear that colortbl has some issues with the names that can be used for a \newcolumntype. The result of ...
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Environment with customizable number of table columns
I want to make macros for drawing group of questions with same answers with customizable text, number of answers and design (column widths, alignment, etc.), like this:
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2answers
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How to include tabularx/y in a new environment?
I am looking for a way to define a customizable environment for tables in my latex documents. This means:
caption and label
width of table
customized column format (tabular preamble)
While this ...
1
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1answer
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Custom (or any) environment inside tabular adds unwanted vspace
I wanted to define my own version of a verbatim-like environment, that has some less line spacing and uses alltt instead of verbatim, so what I can use \(\cdots\) inside.
What I tried was:
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3
votes
1answer
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Tabular environment within the \newenvironment
I'm writing a book, in which we refer the reader to the CD-ROM for the source code, and tell him the compiler and the result of running the program. Here's an example:
Since this "template" is ...
4
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1answer
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How to avoid duplication of longtable setup code
I have many longtable's in my document. Everything is the same across all the tables, except for the caption and the content (of course). How can I avoid duplicating the stuff required to set up ...
3
votes
1answer
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Create environment inside another environment?
Why can't I define an environment, that encloses another tabularx environment inside it?
For example, why can't I do this:
\newenvironment{customTabular}{
% This is the begin code
...
2
votes
2answers
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Can this command be converted to environment?
I have a command as follows:
\newcommand{\Comment}[1]{&&\tabularnewline\hline}
And now I want to convert it to be an environment as follows:
\newsavebox{\tempDescription}
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2
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1answer
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array package breaks references in a tabular environment
This is a follow-up question to my last question:
Defining a new LaTeX environment for numbered two-column proofs
Basically, I'm trying to define the following environment:
\newcounter{proofc}
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1answer
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bottomrule not working in a self-made environment
I have this environment for consistent tables in my LaTeX documents:
\newenvironment{defaultTable}[2] {
\@float{table}[h]
\noindent
\tabularx{\textwidth}{#1}
\specialrule{0.5pt}{10pt}{0pt}
...
7
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4answers
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Use column-separator & (ampersand) inside \newenvironment
I'd like to define a grammar environment which basically wraps a tabular environment. Inside the grammar environment I'd like to use an environment called production to insert rows. Example:
...
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3answers
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Problem with redefining Tabular environment with the \renewenvironment command
In a book I'm typesetting, I want the tabular environment to be in footnote size and the other body of the book to be in normalsize font. To do this, I've tried something like the following:
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5
votes
2answers
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tabularx inside a \newenvironment
There's something wrong with this code:
\newenvironment{Tbl}
{\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|l|X|} \hline}
{\end{tabularx}}
but this is fine:
\newenvironment{Tbl}
{\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline}
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