{framed} is about framed document elements, e.g., boxes and environments. A popular package is {mdframed}.
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Highlight elements in the matrix
I have a matrix and need to highlight some elements in the matrix. I have found how to highlight a single element (I want to put the cell in the square):
$$ A = \begin{bmatrix}
\fbox{0} & ...
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How to add border for an image?
I use \includegraphics command to insert image to the document. But how can I add a border around this image w/o any margin between border lines and image?
It seems to be very easy, but I can't find ...
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Can I have framed blocks in beamer?
Is there a simple way to have the body of a block environment in beamer to have a frame around it, rather than having a background colour? I tried putting a \fbox inside the block, but it just wrote ...
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How to place a shaded box around a section label and name
In working with a publisher, I need to format section headings like this (using ASCII art):
+-----+-------------------------------------+
| 1.2 | Section name |
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Highlight equations in a typographically correct manner
I am presenting a model composed of a dozens of equations, some of
them requiring a somewhat lengthy derivation.
The equation that continue the actual model appears progressively
along the derivation ...
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Frame with only crosses in two opposite corners
Is there one package to produce frames looking like the one above in the following ASCII example ? I don't want dashed lines.
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How to make mdframed ignore descenders in last line
How can we make mdframed to ignore the descenders of the last line in the calculation of the innerbottomsep. In my eyes there are two reasons to desire this:
Inner margin
The optical bottom sep is ...
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Text in squared box
I'd like to bot a square box around some text. I'd like to denote a labelled object of size 1, in combinatorics this is often symbolised by something like \boxed{1}. It would be nicer if the box was a ...
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Draw true page border
Is there a way to draw a rectangle around every page?
The problem is that my document (a Ph.D. thesis) is in a funny format (16x24cm). So to print it centered on A4 paper (for reviewing) I played ...
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Is it possible to create an adaptable golden ratio frame around equations?
I would like to create special frame around my equations. This frame should obey to the golden ratio rule. This means that its width divided by its height should give 1.61803398875.
If possible, the ...
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framed or mdframed? (Pros/Cons)
I'm currently thinking about using shaded and framed sections in my document.
But for now, I couldn't clarify the differences between framed and mdframed (or other packages). Although the ...
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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 ...
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1answer
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Design that imitate Google browser
I would like to write some tutorials about HTML, and I would like to do it efficiently without using too many screenshots.
What I would like to obtain is a frame which looks like a web browser, such ...
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Box around a few items in an itemize environment
I'm using beamer and want to call out a few items in a list by drawing a box around them, and, ideally, having a small comment appear next to the box, like this:
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How to choose which sides of the border to draw in a `framebox`?
If, for example, you only want to draw the top and bottom border of a box, or perhaps the left and bottom only, is there a simple package to do this or must one resort to using tables or heavy-weight ...
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4answers
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Creating stackoverflow like tags
I'm trying to create stackoverflow like tags. Currently I'm using an \fbox{text} to create the tags, which works, but not all boxes have the same height (it seems that letters like 'p' make a box take ...
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How can I construct a page layout with framed boxes?
For a report I'm writing, I have got an MS Word template for a page that needs to be included. The page looks like this (print screen from Word):
However, there are a few things that makes me not ...
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1answer
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Page Bordering with an image?
I want a custom border for my document.
I was thinking of doing something like this, creating a border with a graphics tool(only the outer frame) and then placing it in the beginning of the document, ...
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2answers
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Gray box around figure with a separate gray box around caption
My university requires that all figures in a thesis follow this pattern:
I'm very new to LaTeX, so far my best attempt has been this:
\begin{SCfigure}
\colorbox{darkgray}{
...
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1answer
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How to draw frame with rounded corners around box
Is it possible to simply draw a frame around a box which has rounded corners, and be able to control frame width, frame color, frame radius, box background colour
(preferably without having to use the ...
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Framing section headings
I'm attempting to put a frame around my section headings. I am using the package mdframed which adds functionality to the framed package. It basically draws a box around an object, in an ...
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How to create Multilevel Colored Boxes using tcolorbox/any other package?
tcolorbox Manual provides the following example:
Can anybody please suggest me how to create exactly this type of box - The no. of rows to add must be flexible(It seems that tcolorbox has no option ...
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Different colorcoded theorems
I'm using this code to frame my theorems:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[amsmath,thmmarks,framed]{ntheorem}
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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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Framing cells in a table
I want to add borders to a set of cells in a table. But not just a border for the single cells because then I imagine I could just put the cell content in an fbox. Instead I want a frame which ...
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Creating simple frames
I want some of my text to be "framed". So far, I have horizontal lines generated by the \separate command in the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand\separate{\medskip\hrule\medskip} % ...
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How do you put a character in the margin (using an environment)
I'm using framed to create a little callout box for tips and other information in a book. So for it's going well however I cannot get the icon (using ding) to sit in the margin.
It currently looks ...
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Creating Page Border for Single Page only
I am digitizing a book and there is only a single page which has page border as shown in the attached image.
How can I create border to a single page? Is there a library where I can choose a border ...
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Place a background relative to the position of an environment
I am trying to place a background that extends the entire page width and whose height depends on the height of the environment contained. For example, the following code provides something to what I ...
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3answers
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How to draw a colored framebox without filling the background?
I like to draw a \fbox{..} which is colored. The xcolor package gives
\fcolorbox{<frame color>}{<background color>}{<text>}
But this forces me to set a background color. I like ...
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votes
1answer
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Shaded continuous across new enumerate environment
I'm trying to write up solutions where I include the original problem text, in a light gray shaded box. I had been creating the shading with the 'framed' package shaded environment, but some of the ...
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votes
4answers
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lstlistings: framed code
I use lstlistings to write Pascal Code. I'd like my code to be numbered and framed. Here is what I have as of now :
\lstset{numbers=left, numberstyle=\small, numbersep=8pt, frame = single, ...
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Is it possible to frame text using a graphic border
I've got a document where in a few cases I'm using the framed package and a single \begin{framed} <text> \end{framed} to visually separate text that is something akin to commentry on the main ...
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Source code listing with frame around code?
I'd like to make my code listing looking more sexy. I found a good example on SO, but one problem is remaining:
I would like to not only have a horizontal line at the bottom of the listing but also ...
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Is there any package similar to verbatim but with support for icons?
I am looking for a package that provides verbatim environments but also supports different background color, frame style and icons (tips, error, warning etc.) shown on the upper-left corner.
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Align text on top of a framebox
I am trying to create a series of boxes so that my students can input there id number for there final exam.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newsavebox{\idbox}
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Suggestions on how to place a sentence of text inside a box with a border around it
I have an "XYZ's Law" quote that I'd like to show somewhere on a page vertically centered in a box with some form of simple border around it. Basically I'm trying to achieve the LaTeX equivalent of ...
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box around theorem statement
Is there an easy way to put a box around a theorem in LaTeX? For example to state an important theorem.
I tried using page 20 of the ntheorem documentation ...
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Framed text with a float in it
I'd like to frame the text between \startfoo and \stopfoo, but there is a float in it.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\startfoo
\begin{figure}[h]
some float with a \caption{...}
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1answer
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fbox drawn incorrectly after \noindent
What's going on here that the first and last \fbox are not getting drawn correctly when immediately following \noindent?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pst-node}
\pagestyle{empty}
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How can I insert a framed box inside a table?
I'm trying to accomplish the result in shown in following picture.
So far I have tried :
\begin{tabular}[h]{cm{5cm}m{5cm}c}
fingerprint & Signature1 & \rule{5cm}{.5pt} & fingerprint ...
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How to put a framed box around text + math enviroment
I am looking for something like \fbox but it seems that you cannot use it when a math environment is included. However its not only a math environment (then you could use \boxed I know) but also text, ...
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What is the easiest way to get borders around a page in LaTeX?
I want my document to have borders in all pages. I imagine I can do that using TikZ, but is there an easier way to do it?
I also asked this question here, but as the main question was something ...
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votes
2answers
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Combining `tikzpicture` and `lstlisting`
I'm working on a custom lstlisting environment, in which I use TikZ to add a frame and a title. Because of the widespread curly braces of node I cannot use newenvironment, so I have to resort to ...
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votes
2answers
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Boxed entries in matrices
I would like to create a formula or figure like this:
I tried it simply with the pmatrix environment and the \boxed command, but the spacing looked horrible. I think it might be done with TikZ, but ...
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votes
1answer
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Black and white emphasis for \boxed?
I am using \boxed to place emphasis on important equations in an assignment I am typing up, and would like to give the final answer a bit of extra emphasis. I'm using \begin{equation} ... ...
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1answer
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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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How to create a warning box like this (see the figure to get the idea)?
Scenario
I want to create a warning box (or pitfall box) that satisfies the following creteria:
It can be broken across pages.
It can contain images, displayed equations, begin{minipage}, ...
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A beautiful border style
I need a border style that has a nice appearance. I've found something like this:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}
...
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LaTeX is putting a border around my figures
I'm trying to embed a few images in a figure, but LaTeX keeps putting a border around three of the sides. Is there any way for me to keep it from adding this border?
The code that I used to create ...
