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Height filling minipages in Beamer

I am trying to accurately center things in my Beamer frames with animations. For that purpose, I would like to use minipages with fixed height, which should be automatically inferred so that I do not ...
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How to automatically scale `\mid` within delimiters

\mid within \left and \right delimiters is expected to be automatically scaled, but today I noticed such behavior: L = \sup \left\{ \sum_{x \in F} a(x) \mid F \subset X,\, |F| < \infty \right\}, ...
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how to customize size of the image through arguments?

Relating from this link, Create command to inline an image in a question? is there a way so the image can be modified? Example \Image[20][10] where 20 is the height and 10 is the width.
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how to get the size of a \pgfdeclareimage

Basically I want to use a TikZ node to frame a pgfimage, so later on, I will add more and connect them as I see fit. I have this: \pgfdeclareimage[width=10em]{image1}{images/image1} ...
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How can I determine the height of a minipage?

If I have a minipage \begin{minipage}{5cm} content \end{minipage} How can I determine its height and save this value as a length?
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How can I draw a very thin row?

I want to draw a table like the attached with LaTeX. I'm using the table and tabular environmnet. My problem is how I can represent the line which goes from the begining to the end of the table at the ...
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Set same height for all cells in longtable

I have created longtable with some text and I want set same height for all cells. It looks like: \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{longtable} \begin{document} ...
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Fitting tables into beamer

I have some tables in my presentations that are rather big. I found out how to use \resizebox to fit them into my page. Unfortunately this only works for tables that are wide. For long tables, my ...
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Beamer copenhagen theme banner height

I'm using beamer with Copenhagen theme. I want to use a logo in the right-most corner of all slides. I achieved this using textblock and addtobeamertemplate facilities. My question is, when I add ...
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content-independent total height

I am generating a table from a program with two pairs of name/value columns. Each pair forms a two column tabu table and the two tables are then nested in an overall tabu table to get the effect. I ...
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How to make a row in a table shorter?

I have a row of a table (tabular) that has small text (tiny). I would like to make this (first) row shorter, either automatically (automatic height) o̶r̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶(̶s̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶ ...
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How to determine the height of a beamer block?

To keep content from jumping between slides in a beamer presentation, I would like to use an overlayarea environment. By trial and error, one can determine the appropriate amount of space to reserve. ...
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Determine height of tabular

I am working in a minipage, because I want two columns next to each other in landscape mode. In the first column I would like to place a figure, and then a tabular. I am scaling the tabular to ...
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Vertical height of \longtable

How can I reduce vertical height of the \longtable. Note that all the document is double-spaced. I need the vertical spaces in the tables to be exactly adjusted as in the \tabular. Example: ...
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Content doesn't fit in one slide

I have a paragraph which I want to put in one slide, but it doesn't fit and some content can't be seen. I am using the Warsaw theme as follows. I tried increasing the height of the slide using the ...
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Set Table height to fixed height

I found the \resizebox command but I don't want to scale my table. I want to be able to set it to X height and have it stay there. Is there a way to set the height of a table and leave it there no ...
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Increasing height of single row in table [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Column padding in tables I want to make a table where one column heading has superscript which overlaps with hline above it. How can I increase the height of just that ...
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tabular height savebox problem

I'd like to build a tabular and next to it a graphics in the same height. I use the following code (for minimal working purposes, I used \rule) and do not understand, what is going wrong: ...
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Increasing the size of a minipage proportional to the contain

I am trying to create a simple environment. The enviroment contains a minipage that is surrounded but a dashed box. \NewEnviron{Notes}{ \par \begin{tikzpicture} \node[rectangle,minimum ...
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Table/tabular problem: vertical centering of long text + increase the row height

I already checked this post in this site: Vertical centering of text within a table What I am asking is quite similar to that question: I want all the cells to be vertically centered. This can be ...
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How to put fixed-height shading around text (inline)?

I have a chunk of code in an alltt environment and I want to highlight elements that are auto-generated (two colours for different methods): \newcommand{\gen}[1]{\colorbox{DGray}{#1}} ...
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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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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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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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Height of colorbox

I'm trying to "highlight" two parts of a sentence by using a \colorbox like so: \colorbox{red}{This is} \colorbox{blue}{a great sentence.} The problem is that in the second part the height colorbox ...
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Correct delimiter height in TikZ

When using the left delimiter and right delimiter options, I am having the problem that their height is not equal to the node they are surrounding. Here is an example: \documentclass{article} ...