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How can I produce 3 centered columns, with the middle one fitting the width of its content?
How can I produce a document similar to this, but cause the middle column to take up only as much space as it needs (rather than explicitly specifying a width), such that as much space as possible is ...
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votes
2answers
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Remove space before colorbox
I've made the command
\newcommand{\pink}[1]{\colorbox{red!20}{#1}}
to highlight in pink. It works fine for words and sentences, but if I want to highlight a subpart of a word, e.g.
laugh\pink{ing}
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votes
2answers
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Undo last vertical skip
I am trying to understand the sizes of boxes and skips so I decided I wanted to typeset text directly on top of some other text. I don't want to use textpos or anything like that. I am trying to ...
4
votes
1answer
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How can I remove a vertical skip added by splittopskip?
The following example splits a box with the setting \splittopskip=2cm. Everything works as expected. However I want to remove the vertical skip add by \splittopskip=2cm some steps later.
Is there an ...
4
votes
3answers
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dynamic signature/date line
I'm trying to create a signature and date line in a document. I need the date line to always be in the same spot on the page no matter what name is under the signature line, such as:
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1answer
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Non-invasive replacement for \fbox?
I am trying to create a macro that improves on \fbox by working correctly in all cases and by being minimally invasive with respect to padding. What I've got so far works fairly well, but I'm having ...
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votes
2answers
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Add whitespace around a box
I want to put some text in a box like \fcolorbox{red}{gray}{text}
but such that moreover, the box is surrounded by an (non visible) space. So that if i put to such boxes near each other, there will ...
7
votes
3answers
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A \boxed alternative with minimal spacing?
The following code comes from this post. The problem is that I would like a way to automate the size of the box so as to be very small with a few of spacing, but the following solution doesn't work ...
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4answers
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A \boxed alternative with nicer spacing?
I like using \boxed to emphasize my answers in homework problem sets. However, whenever I use superscripts/exponents inside the box, the box becomes taller than it seems it should. This causes two ...
4
votes
2answers
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Vertical spacing issue on box
I'm trying to get the resheading box to be shorter in vertical space. Right now it appears that I have about 2 cm vertical space on the top and bottom of the text. How can I fix this?
Everything I ...
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vote
1answer
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Is there a “proper” way to fix alignment of text in a \framebox?
The \framebox command aligns its contents vertically centered, but this has a tendency to produce results that are extremely visually displeasing. Case in point:
\documentclass{article}
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3answers
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Margins in \framebox
I have the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\framebox{\begin{tikzpicture}[color=black, line width=0.4mm]
\draw (0,0) rectangle (5mm,5mm);
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4
votes
1answer
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Make an invisible vbox
I'm placing a PDF meta information in a \vbox in a plain XeTeX document, and I would like it to behave as if there were no box at all (so any additional \vskip after the \vbox will appear). Right now, ...
5
votes
3answers
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Extra space above boxed multi-line equation
Well, this question is not new. It was asked back in 2007 in texhax, and answered at the same time.
However, I couldn't apply the patch as mentioned in the answer, so I decided to ask it here. ...
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vote
2answers
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\fbox command destroys margin
I included a graphic the following way:
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{questionnaire1.png}
Then I changed it so that a frame is drawn around the graphic:
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votes
2answers
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Create empty box sized according to imaginary content
In LaTeX, is it possible to create an empty box that has exactly the dimensions of some content given?
Example:
\emptybox{abc}
would insert an empty box of the size as if "abc" was printed there.
7
votes
2answers
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Vertical spacing of framed environment
Here is an MWE that shows the problem:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{framed}
\setlength{\FrameSep}{3pt}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{document}
\fbox{Foo}
\fbox{Foo}
\begin{framed}
Foo
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9
votes
2answers
988 views
How do I backcolor in verbatim?
I have some code I want to typeset as verbatim (lstlisting would be ok as well) - but I want to highlight some parts of it via a different background color, i.e. something like this:
\begin{verbatim}
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10
votes
1answer
4k views
Relative padding of a minipage's paragraph
Background
Created a custom command for rendering quotations (epigraphs).
Problem
The text in the following image has no space at the border:
The word "and" is flush with the right-margin.
Code
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7
votes
1answer
2k views
Sideways margin with parbox?
How to get right margin in parboxed header? Top, bottom and left margin are ok, but there is no margin at the right (top) side of 'Parameter' header.
\begin{table}[ht]\footnotesize
\centering
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1
vote
1answer
289 views
Moving a framed environment to the left
I want to move the following remark environment, which nicely splits over pages :), towards the left so that it is not centered anymore. I have been unsuccessfully trying for a while: would you please ...
