Questions tagged [environments]
{environments} is for general questions related to (La)TeX environments. For questions about environment subcategories like {lists}, {quoting} environments, or {floats} use the appropriate tag instead.
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Hangparas environment makes text go off the page
I've been manually making a bibliography by using the hangparas environment from the hanging environment, but the text runs off the page. Here is what it looks like when I compile. Here's a MWE:
\...
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How to replace the 'Chapter' in the Chapter title with 'Appendix' in both the TOC and Appendices
I am working on my dissertation and I would like the Appendix Chapters to be labeled 'Appendix' in both the TOC and Chapter title within the Appendices. I am using the book document class.
I tried ...
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\color{} inserts blank line after environment!
I use \begin{@empty}\color{red} . . . \end{@empty} to delimit colored text. But it inserts an extra blank line after \end{@empty} in the following situation:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}...
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Problem with change the Abstract name
I use the next enviroment for the abstract section:
\newcommand{\abstractname}{Prefacio}
\makeatletter
\if@titlepage
\newenvironment{abstract}{%
\titlepage
\null\vfil
\@...
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expl3 - An environment to explain the calculation of an expected value (finite case)
I would like to automate the production of the following output (the formatting is not so good but I will do a better one later).
This picture has been obtained using this code :
\documentclass[12pt,...
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How to use keyword arguments in a LaTeX environment?
I would like to define a convenient way to pass arguments to an environment using the notation key=value. I don't know how to find this on the documentation.
For exemple:
\newenvironment{foobar}[3]{
.....
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Increase spacing between paragraphs
I wrote a small environment to write exercises:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{xparse}
\newcommand{\listofexercises}{List of exercises}
\newlistof{exercise}{...
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Unable to use macro for \end{<environment name>} for environment defined using \NewEnviron
I would like to use a shorthand to begin and end an environment, such as \be and \ee. This works as expected for standard environments, such as equation as illustrated below.
% this compiles fine
\...
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KOMA-scripts' \makenote*{} in \newenvironment?
I am using KOMA-scripts' \makenote*{} command to make notes in the margin. Example:
%! TEX program = lualatex
\documentclass[oneside, titlepage = false, fontsize = 12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage{...
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Using align* inside a newly defined environment [duplicate]
I would like to take this :
\newenvironment{myfind}[1]
{{\em Find : #1}\begin{eqnarray*}}{\end{eqnarray*}}
\begin{myfind} {$\lim_{x \to -1} f(x)$}
\lim_{x \to -1^+} f(x)&=+\infty \\
\lim_{...
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Displaying all page numbers in ToC on the left-hand side?
I'm trying to display the page numbers on the left side of the ToC. I used code from the Moving the page number in a table of contents to the left of the titles with tocloft
thread and was able to ...
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How to renewenvironment that wrap the base environment?
I would like to add wrap something around an existing environment.
Consider an existing environment sphinxVerbatim, I would like to renew this environment by adding something before and after that ...
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Why is code appended to \endabstract still indented?
I'm trying to automatically append "keywords" (defined in the preamble) to the end of the abstract environment. The keywords should not be flush with the abstract, but flush with the body ...
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Same environment with different names [duplicate]
A new environment can be made with:
\newenvironment{name}[1]{stuff at the beginning}{stuff at the end}
In the document the environment can be created with:
\begin{name} different stuff \end{name}
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How to redefine the proof environment for INFORMS papers
In almost all journals, proofs are written in a "proof" environment, like this"
\begin{proof}
PROOF BODY
\end{proof}
But INFORMS journals have an idiosyncratic way of writing proofs:
\...
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Needing suggestions/guidance to create a newenvironment for a table that will be used multiple times
I'm a beginner with LaTeX or TeX in general.
I use Tex Studio to write any LaTeX document.
I'm writing a document that requires many tables, all based on the same template, think about copy&paste ...
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How to reuse the output of an environment
I have created an environment with \NewEnviron that processes some input. For the sake of the discussion, it is something like
\NewEnviron{myworkingenvironment}[1]
{
\BODY % BODY is expected to ...
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How to build a newenvironment out of a parametric command?
I'm very new here even if I've used Stackexchange looking for answers a lot. For once I can't find the one I'm looking for so I have to ask it.
I'm a bit afraid it is a very simple question but I've ...
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Integrate some macro into math environment
For alignment, I write a macro called \protectbox, the core part of it is a minipage environment. And now every time I write a displayed equation, I have to type:
\protectbox{%
\[ ... \]
}
...
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Lined-paper line spacing, and redefining the math environment
(The description is kind of long, questions are at bottom)
I'm currently using a lined-paper style, thus need all the contents to be strictly sticking to the line.
I've changed the \baselineskip, have ...
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Indent a problem description defined by \newenvironment
I am having trouble figuring out how to indent text in a custom environment
\newenvironment{problem}[2][Problem]{\begin{trivlist}
\item[\hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #1}\hskip \labelsep {\bfseries #2.}]}...
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Put the header at top of page (which is now at bottom of previous page)
This question is based on this answer. As it can be seen from this example below, the header "Abstract" is pushed to the bottom of the previous page when the abstract is longer than one page....
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SVMono Example Environment
I am writing a book using Overleaf with the SVMono Document Class (since the book will be published by Springer-Nature). The problem I am encountering concerns the "Example" environment (...
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How to set the length for all sidecaps equally independent from picture?
I have several pictures from different sources like jpeg, tif, tikz, pdf. I would like the captions for all these beside of the figure. I'm looking for a possibility to set the length of the caption ...
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1answer
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newenvironment and chemfig
Since can't set a label to a chemical reaction with chemfig package, the only solution is put the scheme between \begin{equation} and \end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\schemestart
2 \ce{H_{2}O} \arrow{&...
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1answer
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Preventing extra line-skipping before and after an equation environment
I am looking for something I can insert into my preamble which will yield the output of
lorem ipsum
\begin{equation}
math
\end{equation}
lorem ipsum
when I type it with double carriage returns before ...
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2answers
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Hide environment but keep labels for cross-referencing
I'd like to do something that is very similar to what is asked for (and answered) here:
Hiding an environment but keeping equation labels and their numbers inside,
but I'd like to go one step further.
...
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How to change dot to colon after theorem in amsthm?
How do I change the dot to a colon in a theorem environment?
Minimal Working Example:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheorem*{test}{Test}
\begin{document}
\begin{test}
\end{test}
\end{...
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1answer
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Numbering within sections
I am writing up lecture notes for a class and it gets quite long and has many theorems, lemmas, etc. I would like to know how to get the numbering of these environments to reset at the start of each ...
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Why my \AtBeginDocument and \AtEndDocument don't work in .sty file…?
I'm looking to set up a class that allows me to type a document for both teacher (complete) and students (with holes instead of text) that is differentiated using an \ifprof boolean. My macros and my ...
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Enregistrer dans un fichier annexe dans une classe perso, à l'aide de \AtBeginDocument et \AtEndDocument
Bonjour,
Je cherche à mettre en place une classe me permettant de taper un document à la fois prof (complet) et élèves (avec des trous) qui se différencie à l'aide d'un booléen ifprof. Mes macro et ...
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Using tabular in newenvironment for style sheet
What I'm trying to do:
Define an environment ''explanation'' in my style sheet that I can use in my documents. It should take the explanation text and label it with ''Explanation:'' on the left of the ...
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Changing linespread in newenvironment
I'm trying to construct a figurenotes environment that should have \footnotesize and a different \linespread but can't seem to adjust the latter. My MWE is
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}...
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1answer
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Extra space after \newenvironment
I have a file with the following environment
\newenvironment{system}{\begin{equation} \left \{ \begin{aligned} }{\end{aligned} \right . \end{equation}}
Which produced the result that I'm looking for ...
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Redefine eqnarray environment to render its content in red
For (copy) editing purposes I'd like to redefine the eqnarray envinronment to render its content in red (or any other colour). How can I do it?
Edit. I'll use this trick to better spot and (eventually)...
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Including Graphics in reaction Environment
I want to include graphics from chemdraw etc. (i.e. .eps) within a reaction env of the chemmacros package. With this i I hope to achive usage of the same counter, labeling etc. used in the reaction ...
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How can I format an exercise between horizontal rules with a footer linking to the solution?
How can I get this style of exercise and click at the correction to go there
thanks
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Why in numcases centering is disabled when using texlive2020 in win10
I found recently in environment numcases centering is diabled, and the displayed result is pushed right. Below is a screenshot of this problem:
I am using TeXLive2020 in Win10. How can I solve this ...
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Does using an option or argument create a space at the end of the beginning of an environment?
This:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\newenvironment*{testenvironment}[1][]{%
#1 some%
}
{}
\begin{document}
\begin{testenvironment}
text
\end{testenvironment}
\begin{...
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What are the internal macros of a star environment?
What are for example the star versions of the internal macros \flalign and \endflalign ?
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Change color of item label including item[CUSTOM]
I need to create a custom environment for a list which takes a parameter as item label and colors all the item labels red. Additionally, I need to be able to specify a different label for some items ...
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tufte-book: Custom fullwidth environments [duplicate]
I'm using tufte-book and would like to define and environment that is fullwidth but also align-ed (from amsmath).
I've tried doing this with
\newenvironment{walign}{
\begin{fullwidth}\begin{...
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Align for inside math mode
I would like to have an environment that is the same as align(*), except that it doesn't enter math mode itself, so that the environment can be nested inside math mode. I can find the code for align ...
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Why does a columnbreak between equation environments insert vertical space?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{nccmath}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{equation} a = a \...
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Save environment for redefinition
I want to write a switch that puts my Document into "landscape-mode".
If active I want to redefine the multicols environment to do nothing,
but I also don't want to loose it for good, since I want to ...
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latex environment writing generate tikz code but insert it later - maybe with tikz keys
I'm trying to write an environment where the user should be able to insert some commands inside the environment (easy by defining new commands inside the environment) but the output of the commands ...
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Change the default font of the equation environment and math mode globally
Is it possible to change the default font in the equation environment and also in math mode globally to mathcal or mathscr?
By this I mean that if I typeset $...$, or $$...$$ or
\begin{equation}
...
...
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improving theorem environment
The following is a theorem from Algebraic topology written by A. Hatcher.
I'm interested in to know how is possible do theorems like this:
I know that a new environment has the following form, how ...
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See frames in article mode
My question
ignorenonframetext in beamer enables to have only what's between \begin{frame} and \end{frame}. But in Beamerarticle, how can we skip code between \begin{frame} and \end{frame} (i.e. it ...
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Error caused by \ifthenelse within \newenvironment
I am trying to write a new environment for proving mathematical theorems.
What I have is
\newenvironment{proof}[1][]
{\textbf{proof}\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{}}{.}{of #1.}}
{\begin{...
