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Alignment rules
I find myself quite frequently in the need to check whether some elements on my page are aligned exactly as intended. As a result, I usually end up magnifying the output 400% and using a rule over my ...
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Misalignment of \vrule
I have been writing my thesis and there is this one problem that I cant seem to figure out why it happens:
The following is a segment of the code from my thesis style sheet. This defines the first ...
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vote
1answer
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\hrule screws up minipage right indent
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[
top=0.75in, bottom=0.75in, left=0.75in, right=0.75in,
textheight=8.75in
]{geometry}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
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votes
1answer
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\rule command constructing line not extending far enough left
I am trying to put a horizontal line between homework problems, like this:
\begin{description}
%stuff . . .
\rule{\linewidth}{0.4mm}
\item[Exercise 1]
%stuff
\rule{\linewidth}{0.4mm}
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votes
3answers
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Center-justify with hrule above and below
On my title page, I have something like this:
\rule{\linewidth}{0.25mm}\\[0.25cm]
\huge
\textbf{This is my title, it is somewhat long and split over two lines!}\\[0.25cm]
\normalsize
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1
vote
2answers
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LaTeX table: line thickness varying and incorrect horizontal alignment
This LaTeX source ( http://pastebin.com/3HdpbQi5 ) yields two types of errors ( http://i.stack.imgur.com/4J87t.png ):
The line thickness of the table borders in the primary header row varies and the ...
4
votes
3answers
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Why are the lines around my multicolumn cell misaligned?
In the following table, why does the double line before the diff column not go through? I guess all the multicolumn{1} are wrong? How can I fix it?
\begin{table}
\centering
...
4
votes
2answers
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How to overlap two adjacent edges of 2 framed minipages placed side by side?
How to overlap the adjacent edges?
In other words, the adjacent edges should be combined into one edge shared between to minipages such that all rules will have the same thickness.
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votes
3answers
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How can I put a line above a section heading and prevent a page break between?
We have designed a class for some journal. We wanted our section titles to be separated by a horizontal line from the previous line. Here is the code:
\def\section{%
\vskip 1.2\@bls%
\hrule ...
