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Testing and modifying white space around an environment

I'm trying to create something similar to marginpar but without the hassle of floats (particularly because I'm going to have a lot of these). First issue These notes always appear at the beginning of ...
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How to remove indents for the initial list but indent all nested lists?

I'm trying to use enumitem to modify my lists so that they're flush to the left side of the paper but so that any nested lists are properly indented. This is what I've tried: ...
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Changing top, bottom, left & right margins on the fly

I’m trying to find a way of being able to modify all of the margins of a page whenever I want to and as many times as I want to on a single page in order to be able to put text very easily where I ...
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trying to set text where section header has different margin and textwidth from section text

i am trying to set some text where the section header has a different margin and textwidth from the section text. the screenshot shows a mockup of how i would like the final layout to look ...
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Table Spanning the Textwidth

I am trying to create a very simple, one row table that spans the linewidth. When I use the following command: \begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r} Entry 1 & Entry 2 ...
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Left-margin alignment of biblatex's bibliography list [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Move biblatex label into margin Is there a simple solution to force the numerals of biblatex's bibliography list (via \printbibliography) into the left column such that ...
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How to skip the complete left-hand margin

How LaTeX calculates margins has already seemed somewhat complicated to me. In my attempt to improve my answer to this question about how to have a graphics span the complete paper with I tried again ...
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How to push part of a line outside the margin?

I want one particular line to exceed the margin like this... My text My text My special Text. My text. My special text. How can I achieve this? I have tried to use ...
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Environment for text to run into margins

After posting this closed question, I found a good solution for memoir on this page. However, my margins settings are different then the ones he uses, and as a result, the widematter environment only ...
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How can I align section titles and list environments in the left margin?

I was wondering if you could help me with some alignment issues. I've search both here and Google but haven't really found a decent solution. This is what I have (LaTeX default): 1 First section ...
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minipage right margin

I want to start a minipage, with the regular left-indentation, but to have its right margin adjusted with regular page right margin. An example of discrepancy: \documentclass{article} ...
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How can I draw a line from margin to margin, if the text width has been adjusted using the changepage package?

I have a problem with drawing a line across the page (from margin to margin). I had to change default margins for title page (only for this page) and to do that I used changepage package. ...
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Move biblatex label into margin

I'm trying to move everything nonessential into the margins. But I couldn't find how BibLaTeX generates the entries' labels (like [1] generated by \cite and in front of the item in the list, don't ...
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How to make hanging lists using memoir?

I found the \hangsecnum command for having section numbers hanging out into the left margin. Now I want to do the same thing for all lists also, that is for the enumerate and itemize environments at ...
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Block quoting with big quotes on all the width of the page

the following code (source) is very pretty but I would like the text quoted to occupy all the width of the page. How can I achieve this ? \documentclass[12pt]{article} ...
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How to create hanging bullet?

How can I create 'hanging bullet' (bullet in margin) followed with text. I would like to put it in \newcommand but I'm not managing to do it. I tried this: ...