A package for placing blocks of text at absolute positions on a page.
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Manually made folding marks in article don't appear as intended
I am writing a letter in the article documentclass in LyX. I tried Koma-script v2, and found it nice, but not quite fulfilling with customization, at any rate not within LyX.
Most of my letter works ...
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Absolute positioning in beamer when using `show notes on second screen`: text on wrong page
If you compile the example below, you have a very comfortable way to put sources on the slides for for LaTeX beamer.
However, if you uncomment the line with the option show notes on second screen,
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Change in the header for the handout
I am running into a weird problem. When I run my code in beamer mode, the logo that I use in each slide (in the right top corner) stays there and does not move. When I try to make handouts, the logo ...
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Absolute position and pagebreak
I need to generate random text and if random text = \textheight, break page automatically and start new page with the rest of the text in the same textblock environment. I read many articles, but the ...
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grid for textpos layout
This could be a too obvious question.
I'm trying to lay things out on a page and I'm having to recompile a lot. I'd like to layout a grid using \TPHorizmodule and \TPVertmodule (from the textpos ...
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Insert a photo inline with some text and math environment (align)
I'm trying to get sth like:
I've been having problem with the picture-inline-with-text part. A little help please. The wrapfigure package (which is known to be better) doesn't work. Nothing is ...
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How can I get textpos to respect beamer overlays?
I'm using textpos to position text blocks in a beamer frame. However, the textblock environment does not seem to respect overlay commands. In the following example, I want "some more text" to be ...
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Best way to have a piece of text in a fixed location on every beamer slide?
I'm trying to create a beamer template that could be used for giving high school lessons, and one item I'd like is if on every slide I could display information (like the aim for the day, the ...
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LaTeX beamer handout mode textpos
I'm using beamer with textpos to place certain blocks at particular positions (in particular, I use the textblock* environment).
When I attempt to create a handout, the pieces of text within ...
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How can I align some text with a logo?
I am trying to right-align some text with a logo, i.e. I would like to place some text to the left of a logo, and centre this text vertically with respect to the logo.
I’ve attached a pdf to be more ...
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Unexpected output using tikz/textpos
The following code (MWE)
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize
\begin{document}
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why isn't a blank page inserted?
Shouldn't the following code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\providecommand{\insertblankpage}[0]{ \newpage \leavevmode \thispagestyle{empty} \newpage }
\begin{document}
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z-order (foreground/background) in pdflatex [closed]
I am using the wallpaper package to put a pre-made PDF on the title page of my LaTeX document. On the same page, I use the textpos package to insert some text and an image (with \includegraphics ...
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pst-barcode, textpos and XeLaTeX
Please consider the following MWE, which shall place a QR code (pst-barcode package) at a fixed position on the page using the textpos package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pst-barcode}
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Microtype and textpos
I have found an effect on the part of the microtype package that I'd wish to cancel somehow. In the MWE that I am including below I collect a couple of token contents to be typed as part of a footer ...
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No paragraph in datatool's DTLforeach possible when using a textblock from textpos
I'd like to print labels using the datatool and the textpos packages.
Yet as soon as I insert a paragraph inside the textbox which is inside the \DTLforeach loop, I get the "Paragraph ended before ...
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Can't implement new command in latex (under beamer)
I'm trying to create a new command that will ease on reference placement under beamer. This is an example file:
\documentclass[bigger]{beamer}
\usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
\tolerance=1000
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How to add text into a QR-Code?
I want to add a text to the QR-Code. I want a small numbers in one of the four black squares.
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, parskip]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pst-barcode}
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How do I put some text in specific position on a page horizontally with the prosper class?
Is there anyway to put text in a page horizontally at a specific position with LaTeX using the prosper class?
After googling, I found that the textpos package can be used to put text in a specific ...
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Text not visible if positioned over included colored pdf?
I'm having a strange issue with LaTeX: My document uses a PDF background that is included with \includepdf{pdf/title}. This PDF consist of some logos and a solid red colored stripe across the page. I ...
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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 ...
