{minipage} is an environment providing a paragraph box which is a complete miniversion of a page.
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Colored box in new environment
I have a problem, I'm fairly new to LaTeX but I think I got the basics.
My problem is that wants to create a environment that can create a minipage with a background color and some text in it.
I can ...
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why minipage environment prevents \thepage counter update?
Here is the code, that demonstrates the problem:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-6]
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\lipsum[7]
...
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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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linking up minipages like real pages
If I understand correctly, the main text box on a page is a special box, since in addition to the normal paragraph typesetting, text can also overflow into the next page. Is it possible to, say, have ...
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How to split a frame (of beamer) into 2 parts (minipage) side by side?
I would like to split a frame into 2 parts side by side by minipage. But it seems that the following code puts one on top of the other:
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth}
left part
...
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Fit text into given box by adjusting the fontsize
I would like to fit text (potentially several paragraphs) into a box of given size. This should be done by adjusting the fontsize of the contained text.
Clarification edit: The given dimensions are ...
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How to move a whole tikzpicture?
I have a tikzpicture, rounded by a fbox, and embedded in a minipage. Is it possible to change the position of the whole picture inside the minipage? for instance, move the picture 1 unit higher and 1 ...
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How to fix the width of a minipage?
I put 2 minipages containing tikzpicture side by side: one on the left, the other one on the right. And I hope each minipage, surrounded by \fbox, occupies almost half side of the page, and leave some ...
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Where to add a caption and a reference to a tabbing&fbox&minipage
I put some texts enclosed within tabbing, embedded in fbox and minipage:
\fbox{%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth}%
\begin{tabbing}
\quad \= \quad \= \quad \= \quad \= \quad \= \hspace{5cm} \= ...
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votes
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How to remove the first blank line in tabbing environment?
I put some texts enclosed within tabbing, embedded in fbox and minipage:
\fbox{%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.48\linewidth}%
\begin{tabbing}
\quad \= \quad \= \quad \= \quad \= \quad \= \hspace{5cm} \= ...
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Background image for minipage
I'd like to put a background image into a minipage, stretching exactly to the surrounding fbox. What's the best option to do that? (Searching the web, I only found solutions for backgrounding the ...
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Centering left justified text
I need to define a new environment that contains a minipage centered on the current page and with text left-justified.
Something like:
\newenvironment{texto}{
\begin{center} % so the minipage is ...
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votes
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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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Gnuplot - Reduce the space between graph and axis label [closed]
I'm using the minipage package to position two graphs, generated by gnuplot, side-by-side. I use the epslatex terminal. The graphs are rather small, and I'd like to increase their size by reducing the ...
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Side-to-side figure and table in beamer problem
\begin{figure}
%\centering
\begin{minipage}[h]{0.58\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.4,trim=12mm 15mm 12mm 15mm]{fig1}
\end{minipage}
...
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graphical tools for tabular construction?
I often use R's xtable library or emacs org-mode to create tables in LaTeX (they are wonderful, by the way). I wonder if there are other tools people use which facilitate construction of large tables ...
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Is there a replacement for nccmath?
I noticed that the nccmath package is not mentioned in What packages do people load by default in LaTeX?. Since I have had several problems with minipages that all eventually led to nccmath related ...
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Minipage content overlaps with text before that if nccmath is used
It seems that if the nccmath package is included, then the text in the following minipage overlaps with the text before that if the minipage contains only display math. The \FixMinipageForNccmath ...
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nccmath affecting minipage widths
It seems that nccmath is affecting the layout of minipages. In the MWE, you can see the left minipage is clearly not taking up 70% of the page as I wanted. I'm hoping that there is an easy fix for ...
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1answer
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Align minipage to baseline of first or last line inside minipage?
The minipage environment has options for making the top, bottom, or center of the minipage box line up with the baseline of the surrounding text. Is there a way to make it line up to the baseline of ...
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vote
1answer
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floating a tabular in a tabular using minipage
I am able to build the tex just fine, and using the minipage allowed the content on the right to float correctly over the given "blank space" that I was trying to take advantage of by doing this but ...
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Resuming a list started within a minipage
I have a minipage with a figure, and I want part (a) to be on the right of this figure (so part (a) is in a 2nd minipage), and the remaining parts (b), (c), etc to be below. The insights provided in ...
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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
1answer
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Multiple footnotes in minipage - how to typeset as paragraph ?
I have a table in a minipage with multiple, short footnotes. These are typeset one per line. However, I would like to have these in 'paragraph' mode to save space. I have tried ...
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caption ruining figure placement in minipage
I have tiny problem. I'm using minipage to put two pictures side by side in a two column article. The code is
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{.49\textwidth}
...
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votes
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How to change symbol for footnote in minipage
\renewcommand method does not work
\documentclass{article}
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{1.3\textwidth}
test this\footnote{abc}
\end{minipage}
...
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votes
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How to center the minipage?
The left margin is too wide if I set 1.5\textwidth:
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{minipage}{1.5\textwidth}
test
\end{minipage}
\end{document}
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vote
1answer
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How to put algorithm block in a minipage so that footnote displayed immediate after the block
as stated in title.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm}
% Need it for floating environment
\usepackage[noend]{algpseudocode}
% Hide endif .etc
\usepackage{caption}
% Need it for ...
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votes
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How to adjust macro to respect current \linewidth?
I'm having issues with text going past the end of the specified \textwidth. I posted this question about why text was being placed beyond the specified line width. The MWE provided there produced ...
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Why is text being placed beyond the specified line width?
I thought that I knew a few things, but looks like I have some basic misunderstanding on how TeX is supposed to typeset material. I thought that settings by the geometry package would force the text ...
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Parbox as an initial
Similar to my last question Initial with wrapfigure -- other idea? I would like to create a wrapped environment in which I can take a \parbox or minipage environment.
The following code shows the ...
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votes
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How do I put a paragraph in a box that is some percentage of the width of the page I'm putting it in?
I have a document that should contain a bordered box with a paragraph of explanatory text. The box's width should be a percentage of that of the page's body.
I don't want to make the box a fixed ...
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Placing images left and right of each other
I want to create the following layout:
------------ -------------
| IMAGE 1 | ...
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votes
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Alignment of item number in list containing a minipage
I would like to have the list number at the beginning of the item, and not centered as is the case for item (b) the example below. If I comment out the \usepackage{nccmath}, I get this, but then the ...
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votes
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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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votes
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avoiding white spaces between consecutives minipages
I am using the list environment \begin{itemize}\end{itemize} in pdflatex with several \item inside. I want to make each line from inside the environment "itemize" longer so that the length is ...
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votes
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tables side-by-side using minipage
I'm trying to get three tables side by side using minipage. In spite of my horrific efforts my tables keep stacking on top of each other instead of standing beside what drives me mad. Can anybody spot ...
2
votes
1answer
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Complex alignments of blocks
How could the kind of layout below be achieved in LaTeX, without using a letter document class?
At first, I thought of tables, but it would be impossible to align the first line of the second block ...
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votes
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Aligning image and text on top, with minipages
I have an image (on the left) and a block of text (on the right), and I would like both to be aligned on their top. I am trying to use minipages for that:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
...
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votes
1answer
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Vertical alignment of tikzpicture with text?
I have some text, and a corresponding tikzpicture, both of which are to be part of a test question, and which are thus included as part of an \item in an enumerate environment.
Like this:
\item
...
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votes
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Create layout avoiding overlapping floating wrapfigures
I'm writing companion notes for some beamer presentations. For each slide in a presentation, the document has a small picture of the slide, along with a text explaining the slide. For some slides, the ...
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Adding Tables to a Minipage Like Environment?
I'm trying to set up an environment to use for examples in my thesis document. I would like to increase margins, change the line spacing, open with "Example :", and close with $\Box$. Minipage works ...
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How to overlap two adjacent edges of 2 framed minipages placed side by side?
How to overlap the adjacent edges?
In other words, the adjacent edges should be combined into one edge shared between to minipages such that all rules will have the same thickness.
...
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Why there is no output when invoking \usebox{\mybox} outside the minipage in which \sbox{\mybox}{contents} is invoked?
\documentclass{article}
\newsavebox{\mybox}
\begin{document}
\fbox{%
\begin{minipage}{5cm}
\sbox{\mybox}{from first minipage}
\usebox{\mybox}
\end{minipage}%
}
%nothing rendered
...
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votes
1answer
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Eliminate space at end of list in a table
I have a tabular environment, created with array loaded and using m columns, the cells of which mostly contain lists. In cells with a list, there is about 1em of dead space at the end of the list ...
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Relative padding of a minipage's paragraph
Background
Created a custom command for rendering quotations (epigraphs).
Problem
The text in the following image has no space at the border:
The word "and" is flush with the right-margin.
Code
...
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\parbox vs. minipage: Differences in applicability
Lamport, LaTeX: A document preparation system, states on p. 104:
There are two ways to make a parbox at a given point in the text: with the \parbox command and the minipage environment. They can ...
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Spliting a page in half horizontally
I am trying to fix two half-paged documents on one document, one on top of the other.
The method below works pretty well so far, but I'm having trouble using 0.5\textheight for the height of the ...
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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 ...
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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
...
