{width} is the measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
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Center column with specifying width in table (tabular enviroment)?
I have table that has long headers and I would like to specify width of the column, but also be able to remain it's centred position.
Something like |c{0.30\textwidth}|.
It is possible? How to ...
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How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?
I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that
\usepackage{array}
...
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Shrinking text to the width of a node within a tikzpicture
I would like to be able to scale text to the width of a TikZ node.
Using \widthof within tikzpicture as a starting point, I've arrived at somewhat of a solution, except it has incorrect spacing, and ...
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How can I auto adjust a equation to appear in the entire page? (Scale to equations, is this exist?)
If I have a document like this:
\documentclass[landscape, 12pt]{report}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, ...
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How to obtain width of longtable?
I need to create multiple tables of the same width, one of them needs to be a longtable due to spanning multiple pages. I could set the width of all of them to a predefined value. However, I would ...
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\widthof within tikzpicture
In this minimal example
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newlength{\TestLength}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\TestLength}{\widthof{\tikz \node {bla};}}
...
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votes
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Set width of algorithm environment (preferably document wide)
Looking for a way to set the width of an algorithm environment, preferably document wide (as opposed to per-algorithm). Thought it should be fairly easy, but couldn't find a particularly good ...
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Different width for caption and floatfoot with floatrow
I am using the floatrow package. I would like to define a separate width for both the caption above and the \floatfoot below the floats.
I want the caption to span the entire width of the page, but ...
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\parbox “textwidth” for the combined width of a subset of table cells
I would like the parbox width of the text in a multicolumn to be calculated automatically from the combined width of the cells that the multicolumn spans. (Their width will vary in different copies of ...
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vote
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Change linewidth for the whole document, while keeping fancyhdr wide?
Somebody noticed that \abstract changes the linewidth for the whole document (here).
The problem was the syntax: with correct syntax as below this is avoided.
\begin{abstract}
This is an abstract. ...
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Extending arrows with overset text
I'd like to extend an arrow to allow better readability of characters which are overset using \overset{}{}.
Right now I have
\overset{k_1}{\rightleftharpoons}
which produces:
and this leaves ...
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minipage is wider than I wanted
Occasionally, the width of a minipage environment seems to be ignored. I've not kept accurate records of when this has happened. But below is purely illustrative code that shows the issue.
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Average width of popular TeX fonts
I know I have seen a table of average font widths. I am not sure whether this was for popular LaTeX fonts such as Computer Modern and I can not remember where it was. Does anyone know of such a ...
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votes
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How do you get block dimensions in Beamer?
I'm using a block for emphasizing different pieces of information. I'd like those pieces to be constrained to the block dimensions and to use the columns environment, but I don't know how to get the ...
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votes
2answers
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Macro for the average width of a character
How can i made a macro similar to \averagecharwidth of ConTeX in LaTeX, that calculates the average width of a character based on the frequency of that character into my document ? that macro is show ...
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votes
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Columns width of array environment
I'm using the array environment and have something like this:
\begin{array}{|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{x} & \textbf{y} \\
\hline
\hline
t_1 & lon_1 \\
\hline
\end{array}
I ...
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votes
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Table exceeds page
I'm new to tex and got a problem with a table that exceeds the page, because the content is too wide. I'd expect the table to wrap the text into a new line / new lines, if the text is too long for the ...
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votes
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Restricting the length of a line of text while allowing line breaks
While attempting to answer this question, I re-read Chapter 14 of The TeX Book (on how TeX breaks paragraphs into lines). It got me thinking: Is there a way to restrict the length of a string of text ...
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votes
1answer
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Center subfloat above extended subcaption in subfig package
In the subfig package, the command \captionsetup[subfigure]{width=<length>} extends the width of a subcaption. Now how can the subfloats be centered above their enlarged subcaptions? The ...
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votes
1answer
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Glossary term list width
I am using glossaries package in my document and I have some long term names. This breaks my layout. I tried to apply:
\setlength{\glspagelistwidth}{0.3\linewidth}
And it did not work at all. If I ...
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votes
1answer
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Creating multiple columns of different width
I'm pretty new to LaTeX and am using it to write an exam. I'm using the geometry package to create two columns. I'd like one column to be 5" and the second column to be 1" with 0.5" separating the ...
