{horizontal-alignment} is about aligning document elements horizontally, e.g. typesetting paragraphs using `\centering` or `\raggedright` or adjusting the horizontal position of several equation or table components. If your question is generally about (horizontal) white space, use {spacing} instead.
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Should I use center or centering for figures and tables?
What is the correct way to center figures and tables (figure, table)?
\begin{center}
...
\end{center}
or
\begin{centering}
...
\end{centering}
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Starting a line where the previous line finishes
I have been using LaTeX for standard things like letters and scientific reports.
I recently came to visit my grandmother who writes some poetry and told her I could make a nice pdf from her ...
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What is the difference between 'fil' and 'fill'?
TeX provides the commands \vfil and \vfill (and their corresponding horizontal versions \hfil and \hfill).
These commands are actually defined as:
\vskip 0cm plus 1fil
\vskip 0cm plus 1fill
where ...
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Aligning numbers by decimal points in table columns
Let me begin by stating that I did google the answers (and I'll reference to them soon). Yet each of the resources I found discussed one particular method, I'm interested in a comparison of the ...
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Center figure that is wider than \textwidth
I have a figure that is wider than the \textwidth of my document. (I don't want to change the \textwidth.) As a result, the leftmost part of the figure is flush with the left margin, while the ...
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Align nodes containing numbers on the decimal separators
In a plot, I have several vertically distributed nodes containing numbers with different numbers of digits before and after the decimal separator, and a trailing percent sign.
I would like to align ...
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What is the correct way to center a \tikzpicture? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I use center or centering for figures and tables?
What is the correct way to cause a \tikzpicture to be centered? By default it appears to be aligned with the ...
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How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?
I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that
\usepackage{array}
...
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Can I get full justification for italic text?
In the TeXbook, Knuth notes that italics can lead to problems with justification:
EXERCISE 14.16
When an entire paragraph is typeset in italic or slanted type, it sometimes appears to be offset ...
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When should we use \begin{center} instead of \centering?
After reading this question Should I use center or centering for figures?, I want to know the answer of the following.
When should we use \begin{center} instead of \centering?
For example, should we ...
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unexpected interaction between \raggedright and \parshape
While answering Random start of line, I came upon a strange interaction between \raggedright and \parshape.
If a ragged-right paragraph ends in a short line, this line will be "the most ragged".
...
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Center column with specifying width in table (tabular enviroment)?
I have table that has long headers and I would like to specify width of the column, but also be able to remain it's centred position.
Something like |c{0.30\textwidth}|.
It is possible? How to ...
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“Q” and “A” in margin - out of alignment
I have defined a command for a letter in the margin as follows (using marginnote because marginpar did not work at all):
\newcommand{\sideletter}[1]{\marginnote{\Huge\bf\sffamily\color{orange} #1}}
...
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5answers
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Best way to create an system of equations enviroment?
I am trying to write a few system of equations, and I want the terms to be nicely spaced as below
2x + y + 3z = 10 \\
x + y + z = 6 \\
x + 3y + 2z = 13
Now using some ...
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Skip to absolute position on line
Is there a way to skip to a fixed position on a line? (a specific tab position)
Example:
The quick \skiptoposition{1.5cm} brown \skiptoposition{2.5cm}fox
which would put "brown" 1.5cm and "fox" ...
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votes
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LaTeX word wrapping poorly
LaTeX is not word wrapping this anything close to sanely:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\geometry{margin=1in}
...
18
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How to center a listing?
I'm trying to get some console output in my homework. I put it in a listings environment but I want it to be centered horizontally on the page.
The only thing I get centered is the caption ;-/
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votes
3answers
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Centering \vdots in a system of many equations
I have a system of equations with an arbitrary number of equations (k). I'd like to use \vdots to compactly describe the system, like so:
\begin{align*}
R(-1) &= \sum_{i=1}^m A(i)R(i-1) \\
...
17
votes
2answers
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Difference between flushright and raggedleft
What is the difference between flushright and raggedleft?
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votes
2answers
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Line breaking of URLs in bibliographies
I have a problem with the line break of an URL. The URL can´t break correct and extends into the border. I´ve tried some things. Amongst others I loaded the package breakurl, but without any success. ...
17
votes
1answer
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Changing left margin in itemize environment of beamer class
I can't figure out how to line up the symbols of an itemize environment in beamer with the left part of the main text. In other words, I would like to supress the left margin in beamer itemize lists.
...
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Precision copyfitting in xcoffin
Further indulging my curiosity with xcoffins, I'm playing with xcoffins-tschichold-example.tex.
In the TeX reconstruction of the front page of Elementare Typographie, the text is slightly misaligned ...
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How to align table headers differently than all other table cells?
I'm using fixed-width columns with my table, and using both longtable and booktabs packages (as well as tabularx because of \newcolumntype command).
In my table, I'll have lots of number data in ...
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Place figures side by side, spill into outer margin
I would like to place two figures side by side (not subfigures) and what’s more, I’d like to let the figures spill into the outer margin (since they are too wide for the the text width. Like this:
...
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Why do I have to put the center environment in a group for \@afterindentfalse\@afterheading to suppress indentation?
Consider the following two macros, the only difference being that one has the environment inside a group:
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\thisworks{%
{\begin{center}
$\ast$
...
16
votes
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Underfull \hbox in bibliography
I am getting lots of "Underfull \hbox" warnings that point to the *.bbl file. It looks like these messages appear only when URLs are very long, like in the below example:
@techreport{nistguidesec,
...
16
votes
1answer
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How to line up blocks in columns with full width blocks in beamer/beamerposter?
This input to pdflatex (whatever version of texlive is on Debian/squeeze)
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a3,scale=0.9]{beamerposter}
\usepackage{lipsum}
...
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votes
4answers
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Centering \section* and adding them to the ToC
I'm using LaTeX and the book class and have one problem:
I want that my starred sections (only starred sections) appear in the center of the pages instead of the left side of the pages and also these ...
15
votes
2answers
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Vertically center cells of a table?
What is the easiest way to center align each row of table? I have a table column that contains an image and other cells in the same row contain text. I would like to know how to vertically center ...
15
votes
4answers
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How can I make (La)TeX prefer to fill centered lines
My thesis formatting requirements ask for multiline chapter and section titles to be a maximum of 4.5 inches wide with any subsequent lines being wrapped such that they are sucessively shorter, ...
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votes
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Align two inequalities
I am trying to align two inequlities vertically. The \le signs should have the same horizontal positions and the term in the should be centered. My first attempt:
\begin{align*}
\sum a &\le \sum ...
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votes
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How do you center equations?
I can't seem to center equations without causing some weird formatting problem. The following results in the R being dropped:
\begin{center}
E(R_{i,t})=E(\alpha_i)+E(\beta_{i,F_1 } ...
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votes
4answers
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Horizontal equivalent to \raisebox?
Is there a horizontal equivalent to \raisebox? I'd like to shift some content horizontally without altering the layout of surrounding content.
Edit:
I feel bad because my question wasn't precise ...
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votes
2answers
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What is \null and when do we need to use it?
Up to now I don't understand well what \null actually is and when we need it. I have only known that it can be used to create hypothetical anchors as follows.
\documentclass{article}
...
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votes
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Raggedleft and raggedright simultaneously
This seems trivial, but I'd like a single line to have some text with left-justification and right-justification at the same time, eg.
left text here ...
14
votes
2answers
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Math inside tables and formatting
I'm trying to make a little summary of mathematic analysis, useful for my university, in LaTeX. I'm stuck in the problem of creating nice table, with alternate colouring containing equations with ...
14
votes
1answer
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A center environment for plain TeX
In TeX, one can center a single line of text with \centerline. How would one implement a center justification environment for a single long line of text in plain TeX without the addition of any ...
14
votes
4answers
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Bump right-aligned text to next line if no room
I'm trying to write a simple command that will put some text right-aligned, but bump it to the next line if it doesn't fit well. Since an image is worth a thousand words:
The "Normally" case is ...
14
votes
1answer
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Fixed column width table with text left aligned in cells
\section{Section Title} %label{8.4.47}
\subsection*{Some note on Section}
\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{tabular}{p{2cm}|p{4cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}}
Heading 1 & Heading 2 & Heading 3 & Heading 4 ...
14
votes
2answers
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Justify text in moderncv cover letter
I am writing a cover letter and CV using moderncv. Everything works fine so far, but the text in the cover letter is not justified. I think it is good that it is not hyphenated, but it would look much ...
14
votes
1answer
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How to fix the math-spacing when a lot of \phantom, \mathrlap, etc. are used?
This question led to a new package:
underoverlap
Introduction
Based on this question and then this question, I'm trying to perfect the \overunderbrace macro. Right now, I'm trying to get the ...
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votes
6answers
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How to stack boxes like a vertical version of \mbox?
I would like a vertical equivalent to \mbox{} that somehow takes a sequence of boxes and stacks them on top of each other.
I'd like the resulting width to be the width of the widest box, and I'd like ...
13
votes
5answers
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In a tabular, how to left align ignoring minus signs?
I'd like to create a table that is aligned left, but minus signs are ignored. E.g., the following gives a normal left-aligned table
\begin{tabular}{llll}
& a & b & c ...
13
votes
7answers
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Aligning polynomial terms
In LaTeX align, I'm struggling to align polynomial terms and assume there's an easy way to do it. But I cannot find the simple/elegant solution. What I would like is something like this:
x1 + x2 ...
13
votes
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Typesetting math: an optimisation problem (cost & constraints)
I really struggle to align a system of equation for an optimisation problem. It was all ok at the beginning until I started adding the constraint.
I've got this code so far:
\documentclass{article}
...
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votes
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How can I put a line above a section heading and prevent a page break between?
We have designed a class for some journal. We wanted our section titles to be separated by a horizontal line from the previous line. Here is the code:
\def\section{%
\vskip 1.2\@bls%
\hrule ...
13
votes
3answers
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How can one set full justification within left-justified (\raggedright) text?
How can one set full justification within left-justified ({\raggedright [...]}) text?
An example of where I need full justification is here:
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
Document body.
...
13
votes
3answers
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making a table fit on a page by moving it left
I have a table where the last columns fall off the page. Instead of making the text smaller I would like the table to not adhere to the margin of where it begins. I would like to move it to the left. ...
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votes
3answers
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Use flalign or alignat or align or similar environment to align to the left
The following is a small example to use flalign environment to generate equation.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{txfonts}
\begin{document}
The formula is:
\begin{flalign*}
...
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votes
2answers
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Split-like environment inside cases environment
I'd like to have a cases environment with some cases that are too long to fit on one line. I tried this:
\begin{cases}
\begin{split}
long expression \\ second line of long expression
...
