Questions tagged [box]
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text inside a vbox disappearing in the page
I am using the below vbox I want to insert a large amount of text , unfortunately the text does not continue to next page. For example, If the text length is 20 lines , only the first 10 lines appear ...
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Add textbox on every page in the book
I want to put the textbox in the right of every odd page, and left of every even page. I don't know how to do that. This is my code.
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[left=3cm,...
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Question about exercise 17.16 in TeXbook
The answer to the exercise is:
\def\sqr#1#2{{\vcenter{\vbox{
\hrule height.#2pt
\hbox{\vrule width.#2pt height#1pt \kern#1pt \vrule width.#2pt}
\hrule height.#2pt}}}}
\def\square{\mathchoice\...
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How to create a colored textbox in beamer?
AI am trying to use the following to create a box (preferably with no title) in a beamer presentation. Unfortunately, it does not work! How should I modify it to make it work. FYI: it works for a ...
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Color background of Confusion matrix
So I have found this wonderful confusion matrix on this thread. I was wondering how could I add color to the background of the different boxes.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{...
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How to create a box spanning across rows and columns of a table [duplicate]
Starting from this thread How to make box in a row of a table. I'm also aware of Highlight elements in the matrix I'm just wondering if there is any quick way like this to create a box spanning across ...
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Turning \answerline into a box in exam class
I've been a big fan of the exam class, and use it often to write tests. I'd like to be able to turn \answerline into a box instead, while retaining the ability to use answers to toggle the solutions. ...
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How to construct an hbox with negative height?
According to answer on exercise 12.10 in TeXbook, a box's height may be negative:
Yes it did, but only because none of his boxes had a negative height or depth.
But on p.77 it is said:
The ...
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How can I do a box for biographies?
I would like to do a box with 2 biographies. I have a code that it works but the box results small:
Like you see, the box is tight so I want to do it wider.
%Formato
\documentclass[a4paper]{...
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underoverlap: draw overlapping boxes around text/math?
I am trying to have overlapping boxes over a sequence of signs. Basically, in ABCDE I would have SB, BC, CD, etc. I tried with the underoverlap package, which has a code snippet for some overlapping ...
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How to put a box around a non-indented paragraph in a text having a wide margin?
I have a non indented paragraph that I want to put a box around it. Do you know how to do it?
\documentclass[openany]{book}
\usepackage{amsbsy}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{geometry}
\...
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How can I create such a form and write text inside it?
How can I create such a form and write text inside it?
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Add a box around text
I am trying to add text inside a box like this:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This is the section I am looking to do.
Paragraph here
1. point 1
1....
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how to get corners of the box in latex?
I have created a table in which I have to put this box, any idea how to get this box exactly shown in the image.
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How can I draw a line around text, but open on one side? [duplicate]
I'd like to do something similar to \boxed{whatever}, but with the box open one side. Something like the following.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[
\overline{\underline{abc |}}
\]
\end{...
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Maths Answer Book
Hi I trying to make an answer booklet for a mathematics exam which should look something similar as shown in the picture. I need space for writing answers as well as mark allocation for the question ...
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Ovalbox problem in corners, no smooth
I am using this command to make oval boxes:
\usepackage{fancybox}
\newcommand\codeBox[1]{
\setlength{\fboxsep}{1em}
\setlength{\fboxrule}{0.01pt}
\begin{center}
\...
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Creating box on long enumeration
Hello so I want to make a box outside of enumeration:
\noindent\fbox{
\parbox{\textwidth}{
\begin{enumerate}
\item Matriks contoh merupakan matriks berukuran 2x2 seperti berikut: \\
$\...
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Tikz for drawing box flowchart
how can I draw something like this in Latex? I couldn't find anything in tikz examples....
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tikzpicture overlap an other using longtable and wrapfigure
Good morning!
I 'm trying to:
have a pgfplot inside a longtable,
wrap the text (inside the table's cell) around this tikzpicture,
have a theorem below the longtable,
have the theorem inside a box.
...
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pythontex environments and savebox
I want to use the same code in several pythontex environments:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pythontex}
\begin{document}
\begin{pyconsole}
print('Hello \\LaTeX{} World!')
\end{pyconsole}
\...
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How to make a 0pt height box?
We can use \makebox[0pt]{text} to make a box that is logically 0pt width to external (as if nothing existed to the surroundings, while actually we can put whatever in it).
My questions is---what is ...
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How to force not longer displayed or add ellipsis at the end when a vbox is exceeded
Like this
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\frame{\vbox to .3\textheight{
\lipsum[1]\lipsum[10]\
}}
\end{document}
i only need the text within the frame
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Make a ribbon box with text in it
I'm pretty novice in LaTeX and use overleaf to write.
Is there any way that I could do this kind of box with a arbitrary text in it that is not linked to any title or chapter - just a black box with ...
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List of all available parameters of \boxgs{arg1}{arg2} of “pdf-trans” package
An interesting box transformation I have found on the following page:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/169549/26458
is pdf-trans package. It seems there is no manual available. Only example is provided....
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\savebox within tikzpicture results in an empty \savebox
Using \savebox within a tikzpicture environment seems wipe out the content of the \savebox.
In the MWE below, the following macros define, measure and display the size of a \savebox:
\newcommand*{\...
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Box to appear fully around equation
In the code below, I am only getting a box around part of my equation like this:
How do I get the box to appear around the full equation? Thanks!
CODE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}...
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Align boxed equation to the left margin
I am attempting to left align a boxed equation but I failed. Can you help me align this boxed equation to the left margin:? Thank you!
CODE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\...
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Place box around text and equation
I would like to get an output where I there is a box around the equation and text like this:
I tried \mbox and \fbox but couldn't get it to work correctly. Thanks for your help!
CODE
\...
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How to force a framed box not to be cut by the end of page
I would like to know how to keep a whole framed box on the same page. I am finishing a manuscript and I am quite afraid to move the text before/after to check this.
I take this example, from here.
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insert images in bclogo or other infobox packages
I would like to make an infobox that includes images. For the bclogo package I like the general appearance the most, but I can not find an option about inserting images other than inserting the own ...
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List of contentes and boxes. How to divide the page with many boxes for a report
I need a big hand. I'm trying to make a template for a report and the word file has many boxes on the first page. I managed to create the first boxes with a \fbox ambient and for the table of contents ...
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Adjust text spacing in tikz box
In the code given below (based off code found on GitHub), how do I go about reducing the distance from the text to the tikz box?
CODE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\...
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Getting errors while trying to box a colored text + math with less than 6 lines of code
First time Latex user here
I am trying to box a text plus math using the following code
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\...
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Figure content way too large, overflows the page
I want to have text and figures side by side, to do so, I managed to get this code:
\begin{figure}[]
\subsubsection{\large Helpmate}
\centering
\makebox[0pt][c]{
\begin{minipage}[c]{...
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Parallel box with different style in tcolorbox
with many help in this forum, i was created one box with box inside.
i want to embed 3 boxes from link to my box: Varying Headerbox Color in baposter
My box is attachment.
Thanks
\documentclass[...
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How can I write in a box with fixed height?
I am using report class and have been using \framebox[\linewidth]{\rule{0pt}{2cm}} to create an empty box with a certain height. Now, I would like to write in that empty box. By referring to How can I ...
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How to box and name a group of equations
I have the following group of equations:
\begin{align*}
T' & =kn \\
b' & =\tau n\\
n' & =-\tau b-kT
\end{align*}
I want to put these equations into one box and to put the ...
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Tikzpicture match box width and column width
I can't find a way to match the box width of a tikzpicture and the column width.
Here is the code :
\tikzstyle{mybox} = [draw=primary_shade3, fill=white, thick,
rectangle, rounded corners, inner ...
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Box and Give Equation Number to a multiline mathematical equation
$I(a_1,a_2,a_3)=\displaystyle{\int\limits_{c_1-i\infty}^{c_1+i\infty}\mathrm{\frac{dz_1}{2\pi i}}\, \, \cdots\int\limits_{c_5-i\infty}^{c_5+i\infty}\mathrm{\frac{dz_5}{2\pi i}}(Q^2)^{z_1}(M^2)^{z_2}
\...
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Two-line boxed equation
I want to box the following two-line single equation. I checked the existing posts to no avail. Appreciate any help.
\documentclass[12 pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\...
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Colored bar next to text over multiple pages
I want to have something like this green box you can see in the image next to the text over multiple (~20) pages.
Right now I solved this by using mdframed.
The problem now is, that I cannot start ...
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Insert pictures inside a color box spanning the whole page width
This question led to a new package:
clrstrip
this is a very noob asking, as I do not use any graphics in LaTeX usually...
I want to put pictures inside a color box : something like that
with a ...
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Custom box environment with custom border
I try to make a kind of custom datatype which has a short ID a description and an owner comment. Using minipage with no border is not optimal because it is difficult to see the separation between ...
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Align a box vertically with a text
I want to align the text and the box as follows :
Thank's for your help !
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How do I show a label outside a corner of \fbox?
I'm trying to typeset a diagram with two boxes and an arrow between them. I'd like the boxes to be labeled by some text (math text, e.g. \mathsf{C}) but the only way I found to do that is unsatisfying ...
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breakable box placement
Using the same code as in How to customize title of 'the breakable boxes inside breakable boxes'? with many thanks to @Ignasi, I encountered the following problems:
An example:
% !TeX ...
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Show bullets in parbix [duplicate]
I am trying to add bullets to each item. However, the itemize isnt showing the bullets. Could someone tell me what the issu is?
Also how do I get the item to automatically fill the box and wrap?
% ...
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various defined breakable boxes inside breakable box using overlapping
This is follow-up question of my previous question
tcolorbox: It is possible to put breakable boxes behind each other (overlap)?.
My question: how can I simulate various defined breakable boxes ...
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Beamer: framed box for frame title
I prepared the following source
\documentclass[10pt,fleqn,xcolor=svgnames]{beamer}
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=Green!10}
\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=Brown,bg=Yellow!20}
\setbeamercolor{...
