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Macro changes output
The code and output shown below are based on the answers to this post .
The problem is that first of the three tables is produced as desired but the
second and third have the second column vertically ...
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What is \null and when do we need to use it?
Up to now I don't understand well what \null actually is and when we need it. I have only known that it can be used to create hypothetical anchors as follows.
\documentclass{article}
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Is there a vertical equivalent for \rlap?
I'm looking for some sort of vertical equivalent for \rlap, which can be used to typeset maybe one or more paragraphs (or minipages), but do not advance vertically the content that would appear ...
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Placing a list of nodes in TikZ
I would like to define a macro, which would take a list of node definitions, like this
\mymacro[boxes={{\node[rectangle] {foo};},
{\node[rectangle] {bar};},
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\addvspace can't replace \vspace
I want to replace \vspace with \addvspace in a command. When so doing, I get obtuse "something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item." errors. I'd appreciate an explanation of why this happens and how ...
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A fix for \vspace*, does it break other things?
Thanks to the answers to this question, I believe I have a fix for \vspace* that will make it work sanely at the top of a page.
\def\@vspacer#1{%
\ifvmode
\dimen@\prevdepth
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Why does \vspace*{0pt} add vertical space?
I'm trying to format the title of the table of contents using the tocloft package. It inserts code that looks like the following.
\par
\vspace*{\cftbeforetoctitleskip}%
% code to typeset ...
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Repeating a block of text until it fills a page
Might I please have some help with writing a loop that repeats a block of text as many times as there is remaining space for it on the page?
I would like to produce an notebook in TeX which is ...
