{positioning} is about positioning document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be positioned.
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Is there a way to get two pages in one with LaTeX?
I would like to have my document compiled with two pages in one using LaTeX, like what you see when you choose to print two pages in one. As my pages are "portrait", I need the page to be shown in ...
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change position of figure in beamer
I need to put a figure in a specific position in a beamer presentation ... Does it have a solution using X and Y coordinate or another thing? What do I need to change in the following code?
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Title page report with TikZ [closed]
I want to make the front page shown in the attached PDF.
Someone! help me?
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Spacing issues with letterhead background
I have a letterhead background that I use on cover letters. I am having spacing issues with some text being obscured by the letterhead image. I have tried using \\, \\*, vspace{5in} etc to no avail.
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Equation and image in a row
I have example (defined as \newtheorem{example}{Example}[section]) and inside
I have four-level equation of same size as an image ABC.png that I want to put on the right from the equation. But it is ...
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Beamer - Textblock and Show notes on second screen
my question might seem to have been already asked in Absolute positioning in beamer when using `show notes on second screen`: text on wrong page or in Title picture misplaced in Beamer when using ...
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Chapter header is not placed right before pagebreak
I have a document that is followed by a set of appendices. In one of these appendices, I want to include flowcharts as figures that take a whole page. The way I want it to look is as follows:
First ...
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TikZ triming text based on an other node placement
I am using tikz to create a page layout comprising different nodes, each node containing a bit of text.
The nodes are placed relative to each other.
What I would like to achieve is that for some ...
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Force Big figure of 4x8 subfigures appear in one page
I have a big figure of 4x8 subfigures and i want to force it in one page as now it displays around 20 subfigures and the rest don't appear.
Update:
I have tried writing this in the line:
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Fine Tuning Float Positioning [duplicate]
How can I make a float have a dedicated page AND be always placed on an EVEN page (ie left page of double sided book)?
I explicitly do not want to have certain floats taking up a whole page on the ...
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How to place a float at the top of a floats-only page?
I just got a short algorithm on my page, and it keeps getting aligned at the center of the page. But I want to have it aligned at the top, what do I have to do?
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Tikz vertical alignement text and shape
I want to vertically align sans serif font with a rectangle. The following code show the problem:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary[positioning]
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1answer
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Page number position on page with table of contents
I want to position page numbers in my document in top-right corner. I managed to do so using fancyhdr (see below).
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\hypersetup{%
pdfborder = {0 0 0}
}
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let latex decide where to place a picture in multicol environment
I have a three column text with floating pictures. The whole latex code is made by scripting. The pictures are sometimes badly placed, so that the text is streched out (vertical space in between ...
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Figure section including image goes above the section definition [duplicate]
Trying to use the following code:
\subsection {Shop}
\begin{figure}
\makebox[\textwidth][c]{
\includegraphics[scale=0.65]{shop.png}
}
\caption{Shop Tab}
\label{fig:shopTab}
...
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Typesetting furigana above and below original text
I have followed Japanese Problem using MacTeX 2011 to set up Ruby Furigana with TeX.
I'm wondering if it is possible to set up Furigana both above and below the original character?
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Tikz positionning on the baseline
I have the following piece of code
\begin{tikzpicture}
[mainbullet/.style={rectangle, minimum size=0.3cm,draw=orange!100, fill=orange!100,thick}, %
maintitle/.style={rectangle,opacity= 0.5}, %
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Extra page at beginning of appendix containing big figures
I have an appendix that contains two full-page figures. The first page of the appendix is always blank except for the title -- I suspect this is a common problem with appendices of full page figures.
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Placing two figures (each having subfigures) next two each other
I would like to place two figures, where each figure has subfigures next to each other.
I tried with minipage, but tex does not like the \subfigure as Not in outer par mode.
Is there any way to place ...
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How can I put the table caption on the top in pdfLaTeX? [duplicate]
I have this code
\begin{table}[H]
\caption{My Caption }
\centering
\begin{tabular}{*{6}{|p{3cm}}}
\hline\hline
But caption comes at bottom.
I can't use this
\begin{table}[Ht]
as it ...
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2answers
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TikZ picture positioning in landscape
I wrote a large game tree (using automata package) and need to display it in landscape mode. I already tried to use both textpos and geometry (newgeometry command) packages but without any positive ...
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Insert Picture on Titlepage
I have made a titlepage with a wide (104pt) vertical line and i want to place a logo on top of that line. I tried to do it with icluding a picture with tikzpicture, but it places the image at the ...
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Using Tikz Fit to draw a node covering a Tikz chains
A chain of nodes is drawn using tikz chains. I would like to draw a rectangle node covering the chain nodes (or, multiple rectangle nodes covering subsets of them). I am using tikz fit.
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How to set the distance between to subfigures each with a tikz-pic inside?
My code is as follows. I want to increase the distance between the two diagrams:
\PassOptionsToPackage{usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table}{xcolor}
\documentclass [11pt,a4paper] {article}
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How to arrage multiple figures?
I try to arrage multiple figures in one page, but I failed. I hope they display as follow:
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
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Eps Position Problem [duplicate]
I am trying to put a graph inside my TeX file it somehow misses its original places and moves somewhere else. What can I do to fix it?
Here is my code:
\documentclass{article}
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Beamer image positioning
I am trying to place two images side-by-side in a beamer document. However, when I compile the document, the image in the right column is forced too low on the page. I am using the [htp] options but ...
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How can I place a double-wide figure float (ie, figure*) on the bottom on the first page of a two-column document
In what I would like to be a two-page, two-column document with two wide (figure*) figures, I need one to be on the bottom of the first page, and one to be on the top or bottom of the second.
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1answer
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How to split the page with images on the right and information to the left
I would like to do the following but more correctly:
I would like to have to have the images on the right and information on the left. I tried using wrapfigure package to do it but I don't think ...
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Positioning figures
I want to force a table and a figure to appear in a page with nothing except them. I've tried \clearpage but it makes lots of extra spaces in the document. Also some of the figs appear in the end of ...
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Picture “stuck” in a position
I am inserting several figures in my text with the \includegraphics command but some of them are not being placed correctly and they don't move when I change the command's parameters.
This works ...
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Caption issue when placing figure side by side
I placed 2 figures side by side using the minipage method from this post, and the figures look perfectly fine. However, the caption of the right figure stick out into the margin, why is that and how ...
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How to force a figure and a table to stay on the same page in LaTeX? [duplicate]
I have an image and a table that I want to display on a page. Each eats up little less than half of the space available so there's not much room for any other stuff on that page, but I know there is ...
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How to arrange floating image top centered?
I am using image in my report as follows to make it top centered.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage{graphicx,caption}% ...
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Subfig label positioning
Can anyone tell me how to change the horizontal position of subfigure labels?
I have:
\captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=simple,position=top}
Is there something like:
{position=topleft}
to ...
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Adding a “take away” box to a beamer slide
In Powerpoint presentations (especially with slides produced by consultants), it's common to add a box at the bottom of a slide that indicates the main point.
What would be some LaTeX code for adding ...
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Finding the current position on the PDF
I am trying to generate automated reports in R using knitr. There are a list of objects I need to print on the PDF and the size (rows, columns, length etc.) can vary. The problem is that when any of ...
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Customize the position of a figure
Hello although this question has been asked several times, I still can't position my figures at the right place. I have installed the float and the here packages. and the code is as follow:
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Dividing Scrolling text
Based on the video available here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkBCeOBbAmM
I try to understand what the following code does
\def\text{\setbox\galley=\vbox\bgroup
\hsize= 5cm
\hrule}
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Text in framed boxes with arrows [duplicate]
A question similar to How can I construct a page layout with framed boxes?
I need to construct a very simple flow chart with a few vertically and horizontally aligned boxes with arrows betweem them.
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LaTeX XY positioning
I have not been using latex in a while and I would like to try to implement the tips & tricks given in this video during the TUG conference by Jean Luc Doumont : ...
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Differences in vertical positioning of superscripts and subscripts depending on grouping (`{ }`): Why? Caveats? Workarounds?
This question about {(x+y)}^2 vs (x+y)^2 drew my attention to the slightly different vertical positioning of super- and subscripts for such expressions. Compare (x+y)^8_8 (left) and {(x+y)}^8_8 ...
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High level digital design in TikZ
I am very new to TikZ and I have trouble making a diagram similar to the one here:
My problems are specifically making MUX to get to inputs which would be on 1/3 and 2/3 of the width. Taking sigma ...
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Reduce space between enumerated items
Background
A book with lots of images. All of the images are set to "here definitely" (as they must come after the text that introduces them).
Problem
The list types (enumerated and bullet) have ...
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TOC longer than 1 page messes with Tikz absolute positioning on following pages
I have an issue where a TOC on more than one page, ruins the tikz-positioning for the rest of the pdf.
Example:
The header has been moved to the bottom of the page where it usually stays on the ...
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Force position of full page sized figure
I'd like to have text that is placed after a figure which occupies a whole page also to be placed after that page in the produces PDF file.
Imagine this (pseudo latex, not necessarily a working ...
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Force figure placement in text
I have a problem when a lot of figures are in question. Some figures tend to "fly around", that is, be a paragraph below, although I placed them before that paragraph. I use code:
\begin{figure}[ht]
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Novice's question: I don't want other objects' locations to move when I add a circle
TikZ novice, here. I want to create two slides (in Beamer), identical except for the addition of a circle in the second slide. I don't want the addition of the circle to shift about the placement of ...
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How can you position a node relatively to another in TikZ
I would like to place a node 'B' 60 degrees of an arbitrary node 'A' between which there is a distance of 2cm. I can do this if node 'A' is at (0, 0), so 'B' would just be (60 : 2) from 'A', but what ...
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anchor arrow start position
Attached below is the minimum working example. I would like the arrow to end at the
west anchor of the node "operation". I tried anchor and few other possibilities but they don't seem to affect the ...
