{minipage} is an environment providing a paragraph box which is a complete miniversion of a page.
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Make a minipage float
I am using the minipage environment to put a table and figure next to each other. Now I would like this to 'float' like a normal figure or table, such that LaTeX decides where to put it (using the ...
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Single/Double side environment with different backgrounds
I'm having trouble aligning some of the elements.
I would like align Check Box and Cross Box to be same size so that they look nicer below is what i got so far.
Also it would be great if they can ...
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In beamer class, how do I remove the additional vertical space before an itemize environment?
On a beamer slide, I want to produce something like
I use the following LaTeX code, which works well in LaTeX with the article class.
\begin{minipage}[t]{1.4cm}
Questions:
\end{minipage}\nobreak
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Minipage: trouble getting figures at top of page
I'm trying to fit these to flowcharts in one page. This is what I got so far, not so nicely done I think. Any suggestions how I can get the flowcharts at the top of the page, nicely next to each other ...
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Minipage width to ignore its content
I have a piece of code which I want to use to align equations one next to another using minipages. But there is a part of equation which I want to go below the other equation.
Here is the code:
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Two images inside minipage (side by side) with one common caption that says “Figure 1 & 2:”
I have two images inside a minipage, so I can have them side by side. When I make a caption for the images it only comes up as "figure 3: text", but I would like to have it showing "Figure 3 & 4: ...
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How to put two minipages side-by-side, which use 100 % of the text width?
In draft-mode a black marker indicates that the reserved space is too low. This also appears in the following example, but it shouldn't. How can I put two minipages exactly side-by-side?
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Aligning 3 images square in a box
I am trying to create a figure with 3 images: two on the left half which are on top of each other, and one on the right that spans the height of the left images. Here is what I have:
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how to put two pictures together using minipage
I wish to put two pictures side by side using mini page, however, it seems the two pictures even not in the same borderline.
Here is my code, I can not figure out what the problem is.
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Caption issue when placing figure side by side
I placed 2 figures side by side using the minipage method from this post, and the figures look perfectly fine. However, the caption of the right figure stick out into the margin, why is that and how ...
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Dirtree and lstset side by side
A \dirtree and a \lstset should be shown side by side. With the code below the \dirtree is vertically not on the same level as the \lstset (above the \dirtree is some empty space). How can I fix that?
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Align text on a vertical axis similar to movie credits
I would like to align text on a cover page in a way often seen in movie credits, with the "key" ragged right and the "value" left:
I use two minipages next to each other to achieve this. However, ...
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Side by side tables as one figure
\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\caption{***}
$\begin{array}{cccccccc}
T_1: & c_{12} & & c_{23} & & c_{34} & & c_{45}\\
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Print programs with its proper syntax
I have defined my own language whose syntax is very close to the one of Pascal. I would like to type the following program for instance. Many people use the packages algorithmicx or algorithm2e to ...
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Paragraph Spacing within a Tikz Environment
I am looking to replicate the look of paragraphs within a tikz environment (actually a minipage).
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Why \ifnum\c@mpfootnote does not work inside tabular?
Why \ifnum\c@mpfootnote does not work inside tabular? Should not I get no footnote-rule? I am just puzzled!
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\makeatletter
\long\def\@mpfootnotetext#1{%
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Pictures not inserting
I am trying to insert a picture using \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}. I have that in my preamble, and then I'm attempting to insert a picture on a title page. I use the \includegraphics command. I ...
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Tikz Ellipse Formatting
I am having difficulty formatting an ellipse within a Tikz box. I am a little bit of a loss on how to describe the issue, so I will let the code speak for itself.
I want it to look like this:
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Two labeled equations on the same line with labels lining up vertically
I'm using the following LaTeX code within the amsmath environment in LaTeX (MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXnicCenter under Windows):
Let $f$ represent the resulting number of such two-step cycles that operate per ...
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Problem controlling vertical alignment of minipage containing only math
I would like to insert a large box containing maths into a line of text and align the box with the top of main line. Strangely, the argument "[t]" gets ignored in the first example below (the second ...
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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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Bytefield bitheader escaping its minipage?
In a small segment of a much larger document, I'm building a poor man's two-column layout using minipages for a short run. The bitheader from the bytefield in the right column, however, seems to be ...
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Two columns with page span
this is my first post! I have tried to find a solution before posting.
I have some input put into my .tex. The left column is text input by a user. To the right I would like 0..4 pictures, also ...
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No space above first \item inside mdframed [closed]
Problem
This is what happens:
But I want the same vertical spacing before the first list item inside the mdframed environment as outside of it. How can I do this?
Code
\documentclass{article}
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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 ...
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Line numbering with Lineno within Minipage
I am trying to add line numbers to a reading passage. The issue is that I can't get them to display when I try to number lines within a minipage environment. Can anyone answer what seems to be a ...
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Minipage footnote is inside tikZ node
I have a minipage, and inside of it I have a footnote and a tikZ picture. Now my problem is, that the footnote text goes inside the last node of my tikZ picture. That is not what I want – and it's ...
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Set background color of a box with predefined width
I would like to have something like a minipage with colored background, i.e. a box where you can predefine the width and the background color. My attempt
\colorbox{green}{\begin{minipage}{\slwidth}
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Make a list with uniform spacing regardless of the characters and number of text lines, possibly with minipages or a table
I am trying to make a list with two columns, where I can used different font sizes and have single- or multi-row columns, while adhering to the page margins and aligning the text properly regardless ...
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\ref{figures} goes to the part, not the figure [duplicate]
I'm using Latex for a Report about signal processing and I've a lot of figures. SoI putted them into minipages to display them side by side.
It's fine but the references doesn't work.
Here is an ...
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Wrap around text inside frame (minipage) in Lyx
I want to insert a number of drop-shadowed frame inside a document and place (the same) graphic in the top left hand corner of each box. I would like the text in the rest of the box to wrap around ...
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Left margin minipage two figures
I have a minipage with two figures, the problem is, that I want to have them shifted to the left, so the left margin should be smaller, the code of my minipage:
\begin{figure}[H]
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Chemfig reaction to wide for twocolumn
For a paper I have to describe certain reactions. I am using the chemfig package to do this. The paper has to be two columns and this is where it goes wrong. When I compile this reaction:
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Understanding minipages - aligning at top
I would like to be able to align two minipage at the top, without worrying about what is in the minipage. I am aware of the optional [t] parameter, but still have some confusion as to how this all ...
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Spacing problem while using itemize in minipage
I am using itemize in minipage and observe unexpected spacing among items.
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[framemethod=TikZ]{mdframed}
\usepackage[top=.5cm, bottom=2cm, ...
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How can I express \begin{minipage}{\linewidth-2ex}?
I am working on a poster template with a not so easy to reproduce style with nested blocks. To that end, I have to create a minipage whose width depends on \linewidth minus some fixed value. In a ...
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Align the top of two tables horizontally (side-by-side with minipage)
I'm using \minipage to put two tables side by side. But when the two tables are not of equal length, the shorter of the two is vertically centered with respect to the other. I would like both tables ...
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Create an exceptional A3 page within an A4-based report
I created a picture within a tool that fits exactly in an A3 page. However I need to place this picture within an report that has A4 pages by default. The picture contains lots of information so I ...
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How to do a small box synchronized translation?
I would like to do something similar to the Artscroll Bibles, with a Hebrew text and a small box on the top with a synchronized translation.
In the following picture, the box in question is the upper ...
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How to implement a floating text box? [duplicate]
I'm trying to write an environment that creates a new float type for text boxes. These are used for example in some books to provide interesting tidbits that aren't really part of the main line of ...
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Ruled Algorithms in columns/minipages
I'm using Benoit Guillon's algo styles for Lyx (at http://bgu.perso.libertysurf.fr/) in 2.0 to get nice algorithms ruled with line numbers. This is just a wrapper for the algorithm and algorithmic ...
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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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Table of 2x2 tikzpictures
I'm attempting to condense 4 tikzpictures into a smaller space in my document. The solution I have is as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=6in, paperheight=4in]{geometry}
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Placing a tikzpicture next to an align
I have a tikzpicture with an accompanying explanation in a math align environment. The tikzpicture is small enough that I'd like the explanation to appear next to (specifically, to the right) the ...
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Problem with sizing side-by-side minipages
I've been writing up my resume in LaTeX (for the flashiness and also to get better with LaTeX), and I've been having some trouble with one of the macros I wrote, called \nrccolstring.
\nrccolstring ...
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About figure in minipage
How to hide "Figure 3:" and "Figure 4:", and let "Figure 5" shows as "Figure 3"? (i.e. subfigure not taking the figure number)
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\hspace{-4mm}
\begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth}]
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Two-column itemization with title in each column
I'd like to make a two-column list with some kind of titles, with "normal" text before and after. I tried it with the package "multicol" an with "minipage", neiter turned out well. Since the problem ...
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General question on floating and non-floating objects in LaTeX
I am wondering when you place a non-floating object such as a minipage into a floating environment such as a table or figure if this construction as a whole is then a floating or a non-floating ...
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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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Positioning equation and figure side by side fails [duplicate]
I have been trying to position an equation and a figure side by side for quite some time and an equation allways mooves down for some reason. Here is the code that i use. What am i doing wrong?
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