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biblatex: no linebreaks in name lists when typesetting ragged-right
When typesetting a bibliography \raggedright, biblatex seems to have trouble breaking a line between an author's first/last/middle names (and, if multiple authors are present, between two authors). ...
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Problem with enumitem and \raggedright [duplicate]
I want my items in lists (enumerate, itemize and description) to be raggedright. So I use enumitem package to make things easier
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[enumerate]{before = \raggedright}% In ...
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How to change ledmac's paragraph footnotes from justified to ragged
How to change ledmac's paragraph footnotes from justified to ragged ? They seem to be justified by default, but I need them ragged left. Probably needs a redefinition of \parafootfmt, but I don't know ...
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unexpected interaction between \raggedright and \parshape
While answering Random start of line, I came upon a strange interaction between \raggedright and \parshape.
If a ragged-right paragraph ends in a short line, this line will be "the most ragged".
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3answers
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Automatically stretch/fit contents of a paragraph
I am preparing my thesis and in many places I find the Overfull/Underfull warnings. Usually it is not very alarmingly visible in the document but sometimes it is painfully out of the specified ...
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Line alignment with \par
I was writing a document in LaTeX and found out that I am not able to properly align the text when I use \\ or \newline
Here is the code.
\par{ {\bfseries{\today}} \vspace{1\baselineskip}
Name \\
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Enforcing new paragraph indents in book style
I'm having trouble getting the paragraphs in my document to indent. I'm not sure what could be wrong, as I thought this was default behaviour.
Here is a cut down version of my tex file:
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Any way to center text within a \parbox?
Probably I'm missing something, but I'm really struggling to find an answer to this simple question:
How to center text within a \parbox?
Side note: I don't want to switch to any other environment ...
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2answers
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How do I stop tables from messing with alignment?
I'm new to TeX and I'm having a hard time understanding how paragraphs, alignment, indentation, and all that works.
Some text here.
\begin{tabular}{ l l }
a & b \\
c & d \\
\end{tabular}
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1answer
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New command for inline text
As I did not get an answer I was fully satisfied with in my last thread, although there were many great suggestions. I will therefore try to rephrase my question here. I also have some new inputs, ...
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3answers
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Indent an entire paragraph / section?
I am writing a document with some odd spacing. I am copying another document, and therefrore the layout must be almost exact. I have sections divided by letters below, and some paragraphs in each ...
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Centered but left-aligned paragraph
I want to have a paragraph, that is centered but in itself left-aligned. Does somebody of you know how to achieve this?
(I have text in a paragraph, on each line the text is shorter than the width, ...
