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1answer
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Indented box that split in multiple pages

I am doing a document with exercises and corrections. I would like the corrections to be easily remarkable so that no student read it by accident and get its exercise spoiled. I have written an ...
4
votes
2answers
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settototalheight issue with empty lines

I am using \settototalheight to calculate the height of the text in order to use needspace correctly. This is the code i am using : \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} ...
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votes
2answers
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Minipage spreading to multiple page

\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[parfill]{parskip} \usepackage[none]{hyphenat} \sloppy \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor} ...
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3answers
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How to split a page in six equally sized sectors?

I'd like to split an A4 page into six equally sized sectors. I want that page to be in landscape. Each sector has a body of text and a caption. I don't really have an idea where to start. I know I ...
4
votes
1answer
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Place group of text and image on same exported PDF page

I am new to Tex and this question maybe is not written well, so I will try to explain it better. I am writing a reference manual where there are a lot of "blocks" that all have the same structure: a ...
3
votes
2answers
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Minipage that allows page breaks?

Is there a minipage-like environment that allows pagebreaks? Everything I can find is about avoiding page breaks (which minipage does well) but I want to indent a whole section, which is convenient to ...
1
vote
1answer
307 views

minipage breaking, or some other route to layout

I'm trying to make a resume with a 2 column layout, where I'll have something like [SECTION NAME] * space * [DETAILS] For example: Work experience[spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace]Some location, 2 years, etc ...
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3answers
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multicols not wrapping to 2nd column properly?

I am having problem with multicol package, I created a sample demo to show it. When I put 3 minipages of certain height in the multicol it puts 2 of the boxes on the first column, but the 2nd box is ...
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votes
2answers
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How to force text and figures to be on the same page when minipage, samepage, nopagebreak do not work

I'm trying to get four figures (centered on a page in a 2x2 grid) to show up on the same page as the section heading ("Appendix"). The following puts the word "Appendix" on one page (all by itself) ...
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3answers
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How can I create a two-column layout with different widths (and texts) for the two columns?

I want to create a document in which there are two separate columns of content. The column on the left is normal text, with sections, environments, etc. The column on the right is figures, all roughly ...