{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 do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?
Often floats may land quite a bit later in the document than the point they are created, sometimes after a section break.
Is there a way to force a new section to start on a new page, after any ...
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Unbreakable block
I want to do something like the following in TeX:
\begin{nobreak}
Text here will not split over pages, it will remain
as one continuous chunk. If there isn't enough room
for it on the current page ...
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How can I make a table that takes up more than a single page?
I've got data that I need to include in a table, but there's a lot if it. I've played with the font size and table formatting as much as I can, but the table still won't fit on the page. Is there ...
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Test if a paragraph has a page break in it?
I'm trying to use TikZ to make fancier frames. I'm using the clever \tikzmark thing that Andrew Stacey wrote to put nodes at the top left and bottom right of the body of an environment.
Then I use ...
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\pagebreak vs \newpage
What's the difference? I know that \pagebreak can take an optional argument that specifies how much a page break is desired, but is there any difference if the optional argument is not used?
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multicolumn long table or enumeration
I would like to generate a multi-column table that wraps within columns of the document, and splits across pages. There are a couple of similar questions here
How do I create a really long table in ...
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Start new chapter on same page
I am using report document class. When I create a new chapter, it starts it on a new blank page in which only the chapter name appears.
I want to be able to start new chapters on the same page as the ...
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Widow word on a page? I thought LaTeX wouldn't do that
Just had a surprise. I have a section in an article followed by a figure. The text flows over a page and ... one more word on the next page (which also includes the figure).
Yes, I added a ~ before ...
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Table and multi-page
I'm writing some sort of book and i've got a very large table.
I was wondering if there was a way to span a table not in the length but in the width.
In the end, i would like to be able to divide ...
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Avoiding page breaks shortly after section/subsection headings
By default, LaTeX allows a page break after the first two lines of paragraphs following section/subsection headings. How can I enlarge this minimum to, say, three lines or 10 percent of the value of ...
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How do I force a column-break in a multi-column page?
I want to display my article's abstract and table of contents side-by-side, to save space. I'm using the multicols package, but it tries to keep each column the same height, and I can't figure out how ...
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Adding vertical space at the start of a page
I'd like to, first thing before writing anything on a page, add some vertical space.
Minimal (non)working example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\vspace{250px}
I want to be further down ...
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How to replace a large block of text by an empty block of the same size?
I know there exists the \phantom command, but does it work on large blocks of text (containing several paragraphs or even several pages)?
What I want is to have some commands, call them \hide and ...
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How do I prevent widow/orphan lines?
How do I prevent a line from appearing by itself:
Orphan: at the bottom of the page, or
Widow: at the top of the page?
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Incorrect bookmarks and page number in table of contents
I have problem with table of contents and with bookmarks. In pdf file
table of contents shows wrong page number of Introduction and Bibliography,
Bookmarks: introduction and bibliography don't bring ...
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Image on top specified page
How can i place an image on the top of the specified page. For example odd pages will be filled by image, even with text. Or, i just want to make sure that (lua)latex will place images on page 2,3,6?
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Add a new empty page
I have a .tex file which is like my main,
\documentclass[spanish]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
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How to make continuous (but breakable) vertical rule along left side of paragraph?
I'm looking for a way in Plain TeX to make a continuous vertical rule along the left side of a paragraph (or arbitrary block of text), such that it observes normal page-break rules. I started with the ...
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How can I force ToC not to end with a chapter?
So I am writing a programming book and I decided to include \sections in the ToC as well (see picture below). The problem I am having is that I have ugliness where \chapter is the last item on the ...
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How to avoid page-breaks inside paragraphs?
I would like to know if there is any global command that would prevent any page-breaks inside paragraphs. I'd rather have the whole paragraph on the next page instead of having it cut in the middle. I ...
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align* but show one equation number at the end
I am using align*, but I still need an equation number. I know one solution is to use align and add \nonumber to all lines but the last. Is there a 'lazy' way to do it?
I searched a little and found ...
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Is there a way to make “page” size match document length?
Many PDFs are never printed but are read in electronic form, where, for at least some readers and reading styles, it would be advantageous to have a single page through which the reader could ...
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Start new page with each section
I would like to start each section on a new page. Is adding the following to my preamble this the preferred method, or a hack?
\let\stdsection\section
\renewcommand\section{\newpage\stdsection}
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Paragraph breaks with asterisks
In many books—mostly novels—often some paragraphs will have a blank line between them to indicate a sort of 'pause' in the narration. If one of these blank lines appears at the top or bottom of the ...
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When do I need invoke \clearpage manually?
I am not sure whether invoking \clearpage is necessary or redundant at many places in my input .tex files.
Here I will ask you, in what condition is invoking \clearpage necessary?
I hope I get a ...
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Theorem decorations that stay with theorem environment
I am typesetting a document using the memoir documentclass. Currently, my theorems have the following definition (using macros provided by the ntheorem package):
% THEOREMS
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Page break with \include
I like to print my drafts with big fonts and small margins (i do this in memoir style in a single chapter), but the \include comand creates a page break. Is there a way to avoid this and have section ...
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Suppressing hyphenation across pages
Is there a way of preventing the last word of a page from being hyphenated?
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How can I prevent page break between lines of a paragraph or bibliography entry?
My university's thesis guidelines require that each bibliographic entry appear in whole on a single page, rather than being split across two. How can I prevent (La)TeX breaking a paragraph across a ...
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Algorithm over 2 pages
I am writing a few rather large pseudocode functions using algorithm and algorithmic, i.e. my code looks something like:
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Coolest Algorithm ever} ...
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Left-hand vertical rule applied to flalign environment with automatic pagebreak
I am referring to the coderule environment (see Override \centering to left justify an image) presented earlier by @TH as answer to the following question: Override \centering to left justify an image ...
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Chapter on the right side - How to turn it off?
As a documentclass I use book. Chapters always start on the right hand side.
How can I turn it off? I don't want to have empty pages. I don't care on which side starts new chapter.
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Longtable does not break correctly when used with \specialrule instead of \hline
I'm writing an application that generate latex code, therefore the solution must be the most generic possible to ensure that it will generate clean pdf all the time. I would like to let my users ...
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longtabu and floats: wrong table breaks on pages with floats
I noticed that the tabu package seems to have problems with its longtabu environment, if it is placed on a page, where a float already is placed.
Consider the following MWE:
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How to prevent lstlisting from splitting code between pages?
Is it possible to prevent lstlisting from splitting a code between pages if it does not fit on one page? Instead splitting I would like to have the code on the next page.
I tried to put all ...
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How to prevent a page break before an itemize list?
It is not nice to have a page break right after the colon and have the list start on a new page:
And here, finally, is the list of mission-critical items:
\begin{itemize}
...
\end{itemize}
How can ...
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Column-wise break of extra wide tables
I have to plot geochemical data tables that are like this table
, i.e. with a header column, but that have much more sample columns. When having too many columns, the table has to be broken at a ...
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Is it wrong to use \clearpage instead of \newpage?
The commands \newpage and \clearpage both force a page break. In addtion, the latter command also "flushes" all pending floats from the stack, i.e., forces them to be typeset starting on the page that ...
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Code spanning over two pages with minted, inside listing with caption
I am trying using minted to display some code in my document, but the code is long and spans over two pages, this works fine, however when I place my code inside
\begin{listing}
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Squeeze some more lines on the current page
During the last phase of layout I frequently get a single line or two on a separate page. Rather then pulling the whole paragraph on that last page I would like to "squeeze" the lines on the previous ...
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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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Syncing text on bilingual pages
This is quite a technically involved question. Of which the essence is how XeLaTeX handles page-breaking.
I need to produce a bilingual book. With one language on the left hand side page and another ...
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How to force output to a left (or right) page?
I am putting together a document that has several cover pages, both for front and back cover. The bulk of the document is two-sided. Cover pages, however, must be right-side (or left-side, for the ...
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LaTeX produces bad, widowed line
I just found a widowed line in my PDF document, created by LaTeX. It looks something like this, see "sion" on the second page:
| blah blah expres- |
| 8 |
---------------------
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Change page layout after first page
currently I'm trying to prepare a letter head with XeLaTeX. The first page of the letter should have a sidebar on the right. For this sidebar, the text width should be shrinked to approx. 80% of its ...
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Remove newpage after \tableofcontents, \listoffigures, etc. in book class
When using a documentclass of book, it seems there is a \newpage inserted after the \tableofcontents and \listoffigures. How can I suppress this? In articles, the following works. How can I get this ...
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Custom alignment of columns in align environment
I need to typeset two columns of equations, each row typeset with an equation number to the right as with an ordinary equation. The first column must be centered, and the second column must be ...
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Overfull box and broken pagination
I'm working on a large document in Emacs (23.2.1) org-mode (7.8.06) which I export to LaTeX. At present, the outline/structure of the document has been created, but not any of the content. The LaTeX ...
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Marginpar appearing on the wrong side (using memoir)
The subject line pretty much says it all: some marginal notes (beginning of the second page) do not appear on the correct side. (The question is: how can I fix this automatically?) Below is a MWE that ...
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mdframed : Bug with page break?
I'm trying to use the package mdframed to handle framed boxes, that allow page breaking when the content of the box is too large. Nevertheless, i encounter the following difficulty :
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