Questions tagged [boxes]
{boxes} are the units used by (La)TeX to construct a page by pasting them together horizontally or vertically. A single character from a font is a box, as are the lines of type and the eventual page.
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How can I remove the extra vertical space above and below this matrix?
I have written the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage{sansmathfonts}
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Reduce size of integral box
I am trying to write an integral over quite a few factors. Everything put together will easily exceed one line, maybe even two. If I try to align everything with some align environment (be it align, ...
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Why does a `tcolorbox` code listing box using `listing above text` not keep the output with the code?
I'm trying to use a tcolorbox to list code above output in a document with 2 geometries. My attempt is failing utterly and I can't figure out why.
Here's the problem:
The box is being split into two, ...
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How to center text-boxes and draw a rule from each box
I know my headline sounds highly confusing so let me provide you my MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\newtcolorbox{frameGray}{enhanced, colframe=black,...
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Remove horizontal spacing between \makebox and \dotfill
I want to present some information in a format which has a scenario described then dotfill to a right aligned result. If the scenario+result would fill the line, I want it to break to the next line ...
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Understanding boxes at the primitive level
I'm learning plain TeX as a nerdy hobby. My current project involves trying to divide the page into unequal columns. I only want to use boxes and glue, with no external dependencies, e.g. eplain. ...
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How can I create a box for a combine of a figure and a table?
How can I create a box for a combine of a figure and a table?
\documentclass[paper=b5]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newsavebox\SomeNumbers
\sbox\SomeNumbers{\begin{tblr}{...
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Overfull \hbox problem in Algorithm caption of ACM template
I faced a problem that my overleaf report that 'Overfull \hbox (8.5pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 92--92'
I used 'algorithm2e' package for ACM template.
Here is the test demo I used:
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Vertically align parbox text with tabular text
I have a table made with tabular that's 3 lines and a parbox that's 1 line. I want the text in the parbox to line up with the first line of the table, but I can't seem to make that happen. I would ...
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Extra horizontal spacing of zero width box
I would like to add a pair of gray quotation marks around the text without affecting the surrounded text. For this I tried to use \makebox with zero width. However, I was still getting:
To my ...
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How can I reduce the height of box surrounding the `\rule`?
I want to make a fancy list of items (based on http://www.latextemplates.com/template/medium-length-professional-cv):
\documentclass{article}
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\makebox inside 3rd argument of \setfoot generates error
If I replace the current version \setfoot with that commented out, I get: "Missing \begin{document}". I guess it has to do with the fact it is flushed right.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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If you were the word "box" and a word beginning with a letter "m" to describe `\mbox` what might your English phrase be?
Note that English phrase "mathematics blackboard bold" is an example of a super-sequence of \mathbb which has the same meaning as \mathbb.
If you were the word "box" and a word ...
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How do I put a box around a column in a matrix in Latex?
I want to build a matrix in Latex code and wrap some components of it with a square. For terms that are on the same line I managed to do it well. But for terms of different lines I am not able to do ...
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Collect information to render later
I am not sure I am using the right terms for describing what I want to do, so the title may be off.
I want to be able to use a custom command like for example \PersonalData{Name}{Some Name} but not ...
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Why are braces mandatory in boxes?
Both \hbox and \vbox (and similar box commands) require explicitly to enclose their content inside of curly braces, so they behave differently from macros. What's the reason of this specification?
If ...
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What English word does the `b` in `\bbox` represent? [closed]
Two of the LaTeX commands for building boxes are:
The h in \hbox is a subsequence of the English word horizontal
The v in \vbox is a subsequence of the English word vertical
What English word might ...
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Boxes in the diagrams package
I am trying to draw something like this using Paul Taylor's diagrams package
I've tried e.g.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{diagrams}
\begin{document}
\begin{diagram}
\mathrm{input} & \rTo ...
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Row of frameboxes overflows the margin by one box
Why, when I have a row of \frameboxes, does pdflatex try to fit one too many on a line, overflowing the margin? In the example below I would expect the first line to have three boxes and the second ...
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Highlight underfull boxes
Overfull \hboxes can be highlighted/marked in the output document by enabling draft=true or overfullrule=true in the \documentclass settings.
Furthermore, slightly overfull or underfull horizontal ...
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How to use resizebox without changing the font size? [closed]
I tried resizebox command at textwidth (0.5) but then I noticed the fonts being shrunk. Is it possible to resize box without affecting the font size? Thanks in advance.
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Add a vertical line centered inside a framebox
I would like to have a vertical line inside my framebox. So my framebox should be divided into two equal halves. I haven't found anything about it in the forum yet. Here is a code snippet.
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tcolorbox does not break and starts on next page
I'm a beginner with latex and would have liked to make a recipe book. Each recipe would be framed in a tcolorbox as shown on the screenshot below:
The problem is that the boxes don't break if there ...
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How to change a direction of growth for boxes?
I have read here that it is possible to change the direction of growth in horizontal boxes.
Note: horizontal boxes can, of course, contain text typeset in right-to-left languages, such as Arabic or ...
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How to make multiple independent columns and then fill them horizontally?
I am implementing an idea for rendering authors. As far as I could see no other package could do it for me, but I am happy to be corrected. The idea is to place authors in several independent columns, ...
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Increasing natural height of minipage / fbox
I would like to define an environment encapsulated by a box where I am able to insert unspecified content (text, equations etc.), but where I can increase the natural height of the box. A minimum ...
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Subcaption box size in a TikZ picture
I want to insert auto-referenced labels (a), (b), ... for grouped pictures, but the node boxes which contain these labels come out to be too large:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption, ...
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Big Boxed equation with title using tcolorbox
I currently have this command:
\NewDocumentCommand{\deq}{omo}{%
\begin{tcolorbox}[
colback = blizzardblue!30!white,
colframe = white,
]
\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{0pt}
\begin{...
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Boxed equation with title and subtitle using tcolorbox
I'm looking for a method to improve my current command:
\newcommand{\deq}[2][]{\begin{tcolorbox}[
colback = blizzardblue!30!white, colframe = white,
top = -0.3cm, bottom = 0.1cm]\begin{flalign}...
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How to create a separate two-column box in two-column article
I am trying to implement a two column box for an abstract. Visually, it is very similar to elsarticle class abstract, except the text in the box is meant to be two-column, if twocolumn option was ...
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How to make a justified colored text panel with text continuing around it
I am a beginner to LaTeX and am trying to make a right or left-justified colored panel with text in it, while text continues around it. I have tried with both a minipage and with defining a textbox ...
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Center a `tabular` table despite it overflowing the page slightly
I want to put a really large table (which is just ever-so-slightly larger than the normal page content) in the center of the page.
Centering works well when the content fits, but I'd like to "...
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Why smash doesn't suppress the horizontal space of subscript with sum?
I try to understand the smash command, and I made a simple example :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb, amsfonts, mathtools}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\sum_{\...
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Overfull hbox caused by paragraph consisting of a single line
I have a document using A4 paper and relatively smaller margins than default (3cm), so the line width is quite large. There are some paragraphs that consist of a single line, for which I'm getting an ...
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Why link box appears on the left side when it should appears on the right inside minipage
With this example I have created a clickable area on top of an image in right to left context, the result is fine outside minipage (clickable box appears on the right). But when repeating the same ...
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Scale a letter but it keeps the original space
La\scale{T}eX is a high-quality typesetting system;
it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication ...
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LyX: Change display color of multiple boxes?
I have a big LyX document with many of these boxes with background color "olive":
On my old PC, these worked well. But I just got a new PC and for whatever reason, the text in these boxes ...
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Is there a way to set parbox to a maximum height?
This question is the opposite of this one. Instead of a minimum height, I would like a maximum height. Text after the exceeded height should not appear.
I tried using:
\parbox[][200pt][t]{0.3\...
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Ensure that box does not exceed a number of linebreaks
I have made a box that I do not want to exceed 22 lines. If it does it will overlap with some other text which is not desirable.
How can I ensure that the text will not have more than 22 lines? I had ...
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Numbered boxes to "List of Boxes" in Optex
I'm trying to make a "List of Boxes" in Optex like the one offered by tcolorbox. I used two tricks for "round frames" and "new list of X" and "new caption" from ...
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About text floating into columns (vboxes again)
With the help of others, I managed to have text flow smoothly into columns. Finally, I got rid of the overflow, TeX does with limited vboxes. Now,a solution always implies the next question:
If I ...
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Improved: Questions about vboxes and their dimensions. Why are the vboxes extended over a given limit? [closed]
I'll try to improve the question:
As you can see, the forth column is longer than the values shown and I have learned, that this not an extension of the \vbox, but an overflow. So, TeX does not want ...
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Displaying values of box sizes Why are the values of the box-dimensions displayed in a box the values from the previous box?
Why are the values of the box-dimensions displayed in a box the values from the previous box?
\parindent=0pt
\newdimen\columnwidth%
\columnwidth=100pt%
\def\text{This is the text to fill all the ...
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About spreading vboxes and their dimension
I have a \vtop box spreading to 40pt. The box does spread according to the actual text more than 40pt.
Question is: Where and how may I get the value of the spread that is done by TeX to the first box?...
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How to split a page into four areas in tex
I would like to know how I can divide a page into four boxes with the same length and width. I attached a screenshot below. I am trying to make a page with four boxes and enter text in each box. The ...
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\hspace{50pt} no effect in the title of a tcolorbox
Please consider my minimal example and tell me why the \hspace{50pt} command has no effect in the box title. Is there another way to place an empty input field in the title?
\documentclass[12pt,...
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How to make properly horizontally aligned a (\vbox) vertical box (\box_use) used in a corresponding environment?
Suppose I define a (\vbox) vertical box in order, in one hand, to compute the height of its content and, in the other hand, to (\box_use) use its content. The following MCE (that doesn't involve the ...
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Tikz breaking paragraphs into lines and placing them at different locations
I had this question about a feature that would make my life much much easier. Is it possible to take a paragraph, have TeX break it into lines, and then have tikz access the individual lines and place ...
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Box around tikz-cd
About this code, I'd like to create two boxes around these tikz-cds. Is it possible?
Thank you so much.
The code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[a4paper,top=3cm,bottom=...
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Framed boxes with borders that take up no space (like the effect of `outline` CSS property)
I would like to make some simple schemas using stacked or overlapping framed boxes with content. I could almost use a table instead, but I do not see how to do some of the "overlaps" in a ...
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