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Vertical spaces above and below longtabu
This is, in a way, a follow-up-question to New table-environment, spaces and enclosing { } in a new environment, which has already been answered conveniently by @egreg.
Please compile this MWE:
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2
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New table-environment, spaces and enclosing { } in a new environment
It was hard for me to find a proper title (feel free to change it) for my question which I want to introduce with an example:
Situation
In my document I sometimes use tabus directly in the document ...
3
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2answers
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How to avoid unwanted Spaces in \NewDocumentEnvironment?
I tried to make my own "quote"-Environment and I wanted the first Letter to be bold and a little bit bigger than the rest. As \lettrine doesn't work the way i wanted, i tried to code it on my own.
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6
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1answer
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Controlling parindent in enumerate inside customized list environment
I'm trying to control the indentation of paragraphs in an enumerated list that is inside a customized list environment. I find that changing \parindent in the inner list has no effect.
Here's an ...
4
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2answers
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My custom theorem/proof environments aren't playing well together
As can be shown in the following MWE, when I have a theorem environment followed by a proof environment, the proof isn't going into the next line; it's rendering right on top of the text I have for ...
7
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Adjusting space before and after a latex beamer block
I wanted to ask you if there is a better way to adjust the spacing between two beamer blocks:
\documentclass[slidestop]{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\begin{document}
\addtobeamertemplate{block ...
7
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1answer
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newenvironment with displaymath causes strange extra space/indent on following line [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Spacing issue for newenvironment wrapper of equation environment
I have
\newenvironment{mymath}{\begin{displaymath}\begin{array}{l}}{\end{array}\end{displaymath}}
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1
vote
1answer
47 views
Avoid skipping before environment
I'm having trouble handling vertical space with my custom environments. I noticed that
using \unskip after the environment eliminates that space, but I have found now solution for the space before ...
7
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1answer
168 views
Custom environment with fancy text indentation
I am trying to typeset text by breaking it into smaller cameos, numbering each cameo, and putting a heading. See below for an example of how I want the typeset text to look.
The code with which I ...
5
votes
2answers
156 views
How can I change the whitespace above and below center?
Is it possible to control the space above and below center, e.g. the way it can be controlled above and below math display? In other words, is there an equivalent to, say,
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3
votes
1answer
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passing text to alltt embeded in command (extra newline needed)
I wanted to close alltt inside a command (to add some ornaments around the text), but the spaces that were used for putting the monospaced text into columns was not preserved.
I found the solution ...
3
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1answer
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Environments with thmtools => too much space if using itemize at the end (also problem with q.e.d. symbol)
I want to use the thmtools package, because it provides some awesome features for declaring environments (proofs, theorems, examples etc.)
And I especially like the "qed" feature which places some ...
12
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2answers
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LaTeX adds an additional blank paragraph after the end of my custom environment
A friend, who is a LaTeX user but isn't very confident with customising it, told me that he would like to be able to put framed paragraphs and framed equations into his documents. So I took it upon ...
6
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3answers
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Creating a new environment with one optional argument
I want to create a new environment with one optional argument in LaTeX. Here is what I used:
\newenvironment{argument}[1][]{%
\par
\noindent
\textbf{Argument#1:}
\noindent}
{}
When there is no ...
9
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3answers
243 views
Environment that obeys spaces
I need to build one environment that obeys spaces, but not new lines, and also change tabulation into four spaces.
I can't use verbatim because I would also like to use macros in my environment.
2
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3answers
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Redefine \arraycolsep for particular environments
How do I change \arraycolsep for a single environment? E.g., I have \arraycolsep set so that the white spacing on either side of "=" in the equation array environment is not excessive. However, this ...
4
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1answer
148 views
Spacing between environments
I am trying to define a dialog environment while using the lettrine package. My problem are the spaces between the dialogs. There is no problem when a dialog consists of more than two lines. But ...
7
votes
1answer
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Vertical space before and after custom environment
I've created custom environment with these commands:
\usepackage{relsize}
\newcounter{annotation}
\def\theannotation{\arabic{annotation}}
\newenvironment{annotation}
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10
votes
3answers
260 views
Adjust environments's behaviour when nested
I would like to define an environment which behaves differently when it is nested. This environment should ignore spaces at the begin and end of the environment. I have this working as I desire when ...
17
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2answers
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How to modify spacing around quotation environment?
I am almost there in my quest to reproduce the rather compact layout of the book I'm translating... one thing to go, though:
I successfully used the enumitem package to modify the vertical and ...
1
vote
3answers
689 views
Vertical space before horizontal line
I have defined an exercise environment which ends with a horizontal rule. I want to have some vertical space between the end of the environment text and the rule.
When I try to insert that, the ...
5
votes
1answer
1k views
Extra intervals before and after flushright environment
I am preparing questionnaire template in LaTeX.
I have the following code (simplified):
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\framebox{\parbox{4cm}{
\textbf{3. How often do you have a ...
1
vote
1answer
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Custom (or any) environment inside tabular adds unwanted vspace
I wanted to define my own version of a verbatim-like environment, that has some less line spacing and uses alltt instead of verbatim, so what I can use \(\cdots\) inside.
What I tried was:
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3
votes
2answers
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How to remove trailing spaces at the end of each line in a block of code?
NOTE: I have to adapt this question to reflect Martin's answer (that actually not 100% solves the original problem) so I can accept it. :-)
If I work without standalone document class, I usually put ...
2
votes
2answers
251 views
Custom list of environments (per section)
I'd like to have a list of my custom environments at the start of each section. I read this post, but wasn't able to get the titletoc to help me. The given response worked for floats, but I couldn't ...
5
votes
1answer
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Removing extra vertical space in \maketitle with titling package
Consider the following two LaTeX source files:
First, manually producing a title using a new environment (eww):
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\parindent0cm%
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3
votes
1answer
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Removing vertical space before and after tabbing environment
When I write
\begin{tabbing}
\hspace{4in}\= \kill % set up two tab positions
{\bf University }, {\it City, NW} \> PhD,
Physics (2007-2011)\\
\end{tabbing}
Methodology and numerical ...
4
votes
1answer
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Theorems and Definitions as quotes
Most standard styles highlight theorems and definitions using italics. Now this is something I really would like to avoid in my thesis (and generally). Unfortunately, if I just remove this "feature", ...
4
votes
1answer
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Vertical space before environments
How can I control the vertical space before an environment, e.g., taublar or minipage. Here is an example that reproduces my problem
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\noindent ...
5
votes
2answers
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How to get rid of vertical space before and behind the lists
I cannot get rid of the vertical space before and behind the lists. I have code like below:
\begin{list}{-}{%
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
}
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4
votes
1answer
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Reduce space before and after an enviroment
A simple(?) question, how do I reduce the space before and after a environment?
I suppose I'm after a redefine environment command that I can put at the top of my document.
Example
I'm using ...
