{page-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks pages (and, in multi-column documents, columns) and how page/column breaking can be influenced.
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How to spread floats automatically over a whole chapter?
In a chapter with many figures, I'm having trouble to get the floats to be interlaced with the text. To quote http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions:
Authors sometimes ...
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Algorithm over two pages, with itemized lists
I am trying to split an algorithm over two pages. This has already been addressed before, with the closest result being this question. However, I have a wrinkle - I need the algorithm to have two ...
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Vertical spacing, pagination and ideal results
I found that the best way to avoid widows and orphans is setting penalties and using rubber lengths between paragraphs, for instance, \setlength{\parskip}{1pt plus 1pt minus 1pt}.
When I shared this ...
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Clearpage without pagebreak?
Is there a command which does the same like \clearpage (typesetting all floats which have not been typeset yet) but then does not insert a pagebreak but continues with the following text/graphics on ...
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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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What are 'pagebreak hints'?
The FAQ refers to "pagebreak hints". I can't find any mention of these by searching (for "[page-breaking] hints" and various other things). What are pagebreak hints and how does one use them?
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How to avoid widow lines after displayed equations
If a displayed equation is close to the bottom of the page, TeX likes to insert a page break even if the current paragraph contains only one more line after the equation, as e.g. in
... it follows ...
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marginpar and orphans
How can I avoid orphan lines if I use \marginpar?
For example, here is a two-page document that does not have any orphans:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\clubpenalty=10000
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Proofs in Beamer
I'm writing a presentation in Beamer, where I present proofs which are longer than one frame. How to make Beamer to break it automatically to another frame? If it is not possible how am I supposed to ...
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Allow theorem split in many frames in beamer
How can a theorem-like environment be (automatically) split into multiple frames if the vertical space it needs is not enough in a frame?
In my document preamble I have
\theoremstyle{definition}
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Rule before one new section
I use rule so as to separate the differents sections. I would like to automate this so as to use the following syntax :
\section*{One day}
\noindent\lipsum[1]
\section*{Another day}
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How do I force \section's to start on a new page if they don't fit on current page?
So I am writing a programming book, and I use \section for each topic. For example, I'd write,
\section{Another way to double-space a file}
\begin{lstlisting}
awk 'BEGIN { ORS="\n\n" }; 1'
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How to disable pagebreak on \hline in supertabular?
This is similar to How to disable pagebreak on \hline in longtable? but for supertabular or xtab: With \tabularnewline\hline I get pagebreaks (or in my case columnbreaks) before the hline, i.e. the ...
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thmtools: How to prevent pagebreak between theorem and proof?
I am using thmtools to format a collection of theorems and their proofs.
Is there any way to prevent a pagebreak from happening between the last line of a theorem statement and the first line of the ...
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Figures on left pages, text on right pages
I'm writing a thesis in the book document class and I'm using a lot of figures to explain the working method. If I use the method proposed in Figures on left pages, text on right ones with class book, ...
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single-column revtex4-1 adds a page break after the title section
Using revtex4-1 in single-column mode produces a page break after the abstract. This is not the behavior with revtex4. The minimal example is really simple:
\documentclass{revtex4-1}
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Longtable alternative for twocolumn documents?
Is there a recommended method for incorporating multi-page tables into twocolumn documents? It's clear that the longtable package isn't set up to deal with documents of more than one column.
Is ...
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Redefine \tableofcontents to start a new page after the ToC
How can I properly redefine \tableofcontentsto include a \newpage or \clearpageafter the table of contents?
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Macro after heading shall not allow page break.
In a previous question I needed a solution for the following problem:
I had defined a command for inserting special custom notes in my document with the fixme package and if those notes followed a ...
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Heading at the bottom of the page
I'm typesetting a large document (phdthesis) with pdflatex and I'm using KOMAscriptand the scrreprtdocument class.
I was very surprised as I saw a heading (\subsubsection) standing at the bottom of a ...
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How can I force an image and its caption to be on the same page?
I am using the caption package, now I have one problem: In one case an image is placed at the bottom of one page, while its caption is placed on the top of the following page. In this case I would ...
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Title page plus table of contents
I am writing a paper for my candidacy exam. I am using book class, but I want my name and the title to appear on the first page with the Table of Contents instead of appearing in a sepearte page. ...
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Force a block of text to be impervious to page breaks [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unbreakable block
I have a block of text (possibly comprising many paragraphs) near the end of a page. The page break is being inserted in the middle of this block--how ...
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Can I get at stuff in “current page” or “recent contributions”?
When I compile the following,
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\AtBeginShipout{\showlists}
\showboxdepth\maxdimen
\showboxbreadth\maxdimen
\usepackage{lipsum}
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How can I tie two pieces of text together so LaTeX tries not to break exactly between them?
I'd like to typeset two chunks of text (a problem statement and solution) next to each other, but I don't want the problem to be the last thing on a page and the solution to be the first thing on the ...
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Forcing even number of pages in output (LaTeX — pdflatex) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to keep the last page number even?
Is there a way of forcing an even number of pages in output ?
What I mean is to make pdflatex document "intelligent" it will add ...
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Full-page figure without extraneous whitespace in text?
My question is along the lines of How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?, but slightly different. I have a figure that occupies a full page. By default, LaTeX ...
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How do I suppress the whitespace above an equation block at the page top?
How do I suppress the whitespace above the equation block at the page top ?
It is added to the top margin, and I don't want that to happen.
I know that \abovedisplayshortskip controls this for the ...
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Long equation does not page break
I have a series of equations steps, about 20 lines or so. I would like to have it automatically decide page break when necessary, but it resists and always tries to stay in a whole page, rendering the ...
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Chapter without pagebreak? (In twocolumn document.)
I've googled, and I read a lot about how not having a pagebreak before a new chapter is bad style. I've read about how one could use sections instead. I've read about how changing whether a chapter ...
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How to put one big image on each page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to include a picture over two pages, left part on left side, right on right (for books)?
The problem is the following:
I am formatting a twopage book on latex and I ...
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Environment makes unnecessary page break
I have a problem with user-defined environments in LaTeX. Even though the content of an environment seems to fit, sometimes LaTeX makes an unneccessary page break after all.
Here is my MWE:
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How to wrap text around a landscape table over multiple pages? \sidewaystable or \landscape + \longtable
I am trying to create a landscape table that breaks over multiple pages. I have successfully done this with the following:
\begin{landscape}
\begin{longtabu} to \textwidth{some columns}
\caption[my ...
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suppress pagebreaks in titletoc's titlecontents* blocks
How do I suppress pagebreaks in the toc "paragraphs" produced by titlesec's \titlecontents* command without stopping linebreaks between subsections?
The follwoing suppresses linebreaks within ...
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Excursus environment using mdframed: Issue with page breaks
This question is a follow-up question to: Access mdframed node coordinates with TikZ?
@MarcoDaniel: Awesome package (mdframed)! Nice clean code, too.
@Tobi:
I really like your new excursus ...
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Add text at an optional page-break only when breaking occurs
I have two tables (created with tabularx in the memoir class):
[ Table 1 ]
[ Table 2 ]
They may be adjacent on the same page, or split across two pages like this:
[ Table 1 ]
---- page break ----
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How can I fit my table of contents into a single page?
When I use \tableofcontents I get all my contents in a single page except for a line that goes on the other page, how can I make all in the same page?
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How to create a page with two columns that can span pages to achieve my special goal?
I am a Chinese plain TeX user and also a beginner. Now I encounter a hard question, that is
I must write some numbered English paragraphs at the left column and its corresponding Chinese ...
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mdframed: large texts with equation arrays skipping pages in \documentclass{memoir} (or book) [closed]
The package mdframed works very well enclosing plain texts with decorated frames: even when they span many pages the frame breaks accordingly! :-)
Unfortunately that is not yet the case when the ...
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Formatting a book with scene markers
I'm laying out my wife's book using LaTeX; I'm using KOMA-Script scrbook as my document class, but I don't think that my question here is specific to KOMA. Between certain scenes, we have scene ...
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Can I set an adjustable line spacing to avoid orphans and widows?
I have a relatively simple question. I'm compiling a large document and finding that I have a lot of pages that start with the last two lines of a paragraph. Is there a way to allow the line-spacing ...
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How to retain the double-column formatting of the previous page after \clearpage?
I'd like to have some additional material after a paper, starting on a new page. For this purpose I'm using \clearpage or \cleardoublepage (\newpage doesn't work the way I want). Unfortunately, while ...
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Shaded theorems (thmtools) spanning pages
When the thmtools package is used to create theorem environments with a shaded background, it does not allow separate theorems to span more than one page. This is a rather severe problem if the ...
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Environment with first paragraph in bold and no pagebreaks
I would like to setup a new environment which typesets the first paragraph in boldface, the following paragraphs in normal text, and with (possibly) no pagebreaks between the first paragraph and the ...
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How to continue the framed text box on multiple pages?
I am using framed package to create text boxes using begin{framed} and end{framed}. My problem is that my framed box goes on for two pages, and I don't want the text box to complete itself at the end ...
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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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Colored Curly Brackets spanning across multiple pages
This is just a thought that came for the notes I am working on,
I have a need to create curly brackets which span across multiple pages.
I don't know if this is possible to do or not.
my curly ...
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(Avoid) hyperref links across pages, with automatically generated content
In my previous question I implemented thumbs.sty, a package that allows the creation of Thumbnails of other frames in beamer (if you want to read that one, you'd beter brew some fresh coffee :) ).
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Onecolumn till end of page in twocolumn mode
I know about using the widetext environment for setting text in onecolumn mode and the multicols package for effortless switching between one- and twocolumn mode, but I think this is not too great if ...
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Placing long table inside \shadowbox
I have a multi-page table produced by long table package and I want to put each page of the longtable inside \shadowbox. Here is what I have tried:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancybox}
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