{positioning} is about positioning document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be positioned.
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latex two column layout set figure to load on single column
this is the double column code
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{figure*}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=60mm]{CC.jpg}
\caption{AA \cite{BB}}
\end{figure*}
\end{multicols}
But the ...
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Tutorial on positioning
As a beginner, I keep running into difficulties when in the need of positioning elements. Pushing them down, up, left or right should be easy concepts, but I find it hard to visualize as a beginner ...
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Highlight passages from the body as quotes between the paragraphs
In newspaper and magazine articles, striking messages from the main text are often highlighted in form of quotes in larger font size, sometimes also set apart by a bold rule or so. For an article I am ...
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Force LaTeX image to appear in the section in which it's declared [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?
Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned
How can I force an image in a ...
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Two minipages with 0.5\textwidth each get placed one below another
This happens in the beamer class only. Does anyone know the reason behind this? I fix it by just setting both widths to 0.49\textwidth and this works but I'm still curious why this happens and if I ...
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A theorem and its proof in different places
I have a couple of theorems, proofs of which are quite boring and longish. I would like to place theorem formulations in a usual place and stack up the proofs at the end of the chapter. How to do ...
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Fill the left 1/3 of the title page with color?
This is my first time to try and write documentation by using LaTeX. The generated PDF is quite impressive, but there is one thing I have no idea of how to do it:
I would like to have the left 1/3 of ...
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How to place an image at the right top of a document?
I've been learning LaTeX and this community has been very helpful. Currently, I'm trying to set up corporate letters but as a newbie I'm encountering a variety of challenges, so I'm posting them one ...
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footnotes - on the bottom except on last page of chapter
My school requires that dissertations follow a set of sometimes odd formatting requirements. We have a latex class file which does a reasonable job at bringing documents into compliance with their ...
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Override tendency to avoid filling entire page with floats
I'm working on a two column document, and on one of the pages, I want to fill an entire column with three different floats. But when I use, for instance, h!, ht!, b, b!, t!, etc., on all three of ...
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Scaling “node distance” in tikz
Well, here's another TikZ question; this time, I have no idea how to find an answer. I would like to give all my nodes with relative coordinates:
\node (A) {A};
\node (B) [right = of A] {B};
using ...
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adaptively sized/positioned arrow symbol pointing to the next line
I would like to use a curved arrow symbol, positioned downwards, to signify "continued on the next line". I'm adjusting the arrow's size using scalefnt and taking the symbol indirectly from mnsymbol ...
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Position an exampleblock in front of content
I need to position an example block:
\begin{exampleblock}{}
Proposed and implemented
\end{exampleblock}
Without disturbing other frame content. Something like:
--------------------
...
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Hyperref link placement: alignment to left page border and top of page
(a) Is is possible to have certain hyperref-hyperlinks (such as those to sections and also (when using memoir) to the table of contents, lists of figures and tables, and bibliography) point to the ...
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Positioning of text (box) relative to other text
I'm looking at the first, 'letter class' example in LaTeX/Letters - Wikibooks, open books for an open world. What I'd like to do is to use a \newcommand - say, \insertbox - which would be inserted ...
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Letterhead : How to Position Images in Top Left Corner (Revisit)
I'm trying to use this exact template, but I'd like a to put a rectangular image in the top left corner ( I can give you the dimension of said rectangle if you need them). I don't know that the ...
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Image placement in LaTeX (twocolumn mode)
I'm beginning to work on my senior thesis for biochemistry and I'm excited to use LaTeX to make a nice looking final product.
I'm new to LaTeX though so I don't actually know that much about it. ...
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Place a figure at the beginning/end of a specific page
So I'm putting together a paper using LaTeX and I know that I want to place a specific figure at the bottom of page 1, another figure at the top of page 2, etc, and let the text just wrap around the ...
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Force all floats to the end of the document without using endfloat
What is the easiest way to have all floats forcibly appear at the end of the document, one per page? The endfloat package is not an option, see below.
The following questions are related but not ...
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How do I put an image on the left of right-aligned text
I'm trying to add an image to the top left corner of a page (inside the margins) in LaTeX. Across from the image I want a set of right-aligned text. I tried using two columns but the image is smaller ...
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Textpos not showing anything
I'm trying to create a business card in LaTeX. Accordingly, I want to use textpos to absolutely position the various elements.
For some reason, textpos is just not showing anything. What I want is ...
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\twopagepicture package refining with long caption spanning across the two pages
The \twopagepicture package is definitely worth it when you have many large pictures. But perhaps I'm not getting the required results because I'm not following the advice correctly. Here are some ...
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How to float figure close to its description in the text?
Consider a float of image with
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{ebooks.jpg}
\captionof{figure}{This is a test}
\label{fig: 1}
\end{figure}
Is it possible to ...
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Fixed marginpars with gray background in KOMA-Script
I am an newbie looking to achieve a sort of two column effect with my LaTeX report - I am using LaTeX KOMA-script as a base.
I want my margin to appear in a different background color, (say) gray, ...
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How do I get the margin note to appear on the left?
I'm trying to make a left-sided margin note. As per the LaTeX wiki, I tried using \reversemarginpar but that didn't solve anything--it didn't make a margin note at all. I also tried \marginpar[left ...
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Position line in a resume
I am new to LaTeX, and I want to create a command that will display my previous positions formatted appropriately in a resume.
The format I am looking for is this:
02.07.2009 - 02.07.2010 ...
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What is the right way to place a box at a specific location?
I have a box \mybox that contains a letterhead. The dimensions of the box are 7" by 1" (and depth 0pt). The box is going to be used only inside my letterhead macro:
\DeclareRobustCommand\letterhead{%
...
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How to put a full-width table at the top or bottom of the same two-column page as the reference text?
I'm posting today because I would like to reduce white space in a document I'm writing.
The content is two-columns but I have floating tables that span across both columns (table*).
At some point, ...
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How can you place a figure caption inside a table using LyX?
I have 3 graphs I would like to use in a LyX document. In order to save space I have placed the 3 graphs into a 2x2 table and in the final box I have inserted the figure caption.
When I try and ...
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How to move chapter number in classicthesis class
I am using classicthesis for my thesis. In each chapter LaTeX puts its number, but I need to move it.
Here you have an screenshot example, in this image I wish to move "4" number to the left.
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Issue with arranging subtables
In this answer, there is a code provided for neatly arranging subtables inside a table. I tried that out and got the following error:
Missing number, treated as zero \begin{subtable}{0.5\linewidth}
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Positioning of equations
How would I shift my whole set of equations/calculations at the left, to be aligned with "Example"?
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
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Specific image layout
I can combine graphics with the following:
\begin{figure*}[ht]
\begin{center}$
\begin{array}{ccc}
\includegraphics{Figures/fig1.pdf}\\
\includegraphics{Figures/fig2.pdf}\\
...
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wrapfig Positioning (Footer is overlapping figure)
I have something like the following:
Long paragraph with footnote.\footnote{footnote shtuff here}
Another long paragraph without a footnote.
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{.5\textwidth}
% figure shtuff ...
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\twopagepicture package refining
I have been able to use the \twopagepicture package with success (all margins, appearances, etc.) correspond to what I have been looking for one of my wide figures in the thesis, however, it only gets ...
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wrapfigure cuts off images at the end of the page
I used the code from here to get text to wrap around images, but whenever I have a long image near the end of the page, it runs off the page and gets cut off. How do I fix this?
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How to force a picture's location and still use overpic
I want to insert a picture, and use overpic to label it, in between two paragraphs of text, like so:
Here is my first paragraph of text.
\begin{figure}[htb] \centering
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Align author blocks
I want to align the author blocks into both lines and columns. My desired output is shown as below:
Author 1 Author 2
Affiliation 1 Affiliation 2
Author 3 ...
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How to display a picture flush to the right side of the page and the bottom? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Absolute positioning in beamer
Insert graphic at precise place on a page
I would like to add a picture to my title page, however, for effect, the picture needs to be ...
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Custom slide titles in beamer
My slides have a particular PDF background and I would like to force slide-titles to appear in a particular place on each slide without a blue box underneath them. I want the \frametitle{} command to ...
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TikZ “callout” positioning problem
I have just recently upgraded my TeXLive from version 2010 to 2011 (OS versions Ubuntu 10.10/Maverick 32-bit and Windows 7/64 bit).
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (Web2C 2011)
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Changing side of line numbering in two columns documents
I'm trying to type some report and I have a small problem with the twocolums document class and the line numbering in listings.
The document is on two columns :
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How to position qtrees
Suppose, I have 2 qtrees, that I want to put below each other:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree,tikz-qtree-compat}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{document}
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How to prevent figures from floating 'into' listings
I have a problem with floats and listings. Sometimes it happens that a listing is split over two pages and when a figure is near the listing it happens that the listing starts on the first page, on ...
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How to arrange / align / place pictures and text, to form a given headline?
I tried to solve this with tables, but the alignment didn't turn out good. And because I am very confused, if I should even use a table aproach or a minipage or a tabspace, I wondered, if someone ...
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Using \includegraphics before my new line of text, but on pdf image is after the text [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?
sometimes im in trouble with my images. Because if there is no space on one page, the ...
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LaTeX figures in two column
Is there a convenient way to place a figure* at the end of the current page instead of taking up the entire next page in the twocolumn environment? Placement modifiers [Hb] do not work.
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Problem with odd/even margins when environment crosses page boundaries
In this question, I described a problem I have with marginpars appearing on the wrong side of the page when they occur near a page break. I ran into a different, but perhaps related problem described ...
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Text on the left, figure on the right
I have one technical text with the small figures, which must be placed on
the right side of text. I tried manny solutions /wrapfig package, table,
2 columns package, etc./ but I can't get this to ...
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How to display too broad table? Not fit to one page as a normal-sized
I use the KOMA-script (sudo apt-get install koma-script -- suggests you the thing in Ubuntu). I think options:
make font even smaller (eg with KOMA -script)
make it on two pages, perhaps here
make ...
