Questions tagged [geometry]
{geometry} is a package that allows to change the margins of (whole) pages and, conversely, the width and height of the textblock and its positioning on the page.
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settypeblocksize does not change the textwidth
I'm new on using the memoir documentclass and I've been trying to implement a page layout with a large side margin, so I can have margin notes and margin figures, but I've been trying to create an ...
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Align CV personal details in two columns
I'm trying to reproduce the structure of a CV I found online. I'm using the article class something like:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{...
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Page numbering disappear when using together (1) fancyhdr and (2) geometry packages
[ORIGINAL QUESTION: How to insert the page numbering with reledmac and reledpar?]
I am writing a book in two languages, with facing pages, by using several packages, as the matrita package, the ...
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Margins are not correct with \geometry{ ... } and \documentclass{Thesis}
\documentclass[a4paper, 11.5pt, oneside]{Thesis} %ECS Thesis style by Steve Gunn
%Set margins
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
a4paper,
top=20mm,
left=20mm,
bottom=20mm,
right=...
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Page margin using geometry package not working
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,numbered,print,customfont,oneside]{Classes/PhDThesisPSnPDF}
\usepackage{tikz}
%\voffset=0.2in
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper,left=40mm,right=20mm,top=30mm,...
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How to make sure texts of the same size on different pages are at the same distance from the page top if it's mixed with images and text of other size
There's just THIS TEXT NEEDS TO BE ALIGNED text on one page of my book that's preceded by some vspace value. There's also some WITH THIS TEXT text on another page that's preceded by some vspace value, ...
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Overlapped text - begingroup+usepackage{wrapfig} and usepackga{geometry}
I noticed that if I use begingroup+usepackage{wrapfig} and usepackga{geometry} I got overlapped text, instead if I use only begingroup+usepackage{wrapfig} the text is ok (see figures below please).
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Adjustwidth in two-column layout?
Is it possible to change the outer margin of a two-column layout mid-document? You see that in the following, it's always the left margin that's increased. However, I'd like to inrease the left margin ...
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Let float run into outer margin
I think there have been some questions regarding this, but I haven't found a solution so far. The figures in my (twocolumn) document are too small. Therefore, I thought about letting them run into the ...
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Is there an English manual for the geometry package?
I use texdoc to get package manuals. For the geometry package I have tried:
`texdoc geometry` which returned `geometry-de.pdf`
`texdoc geometry-en` which returned `geometry-de.pdf`
`texdoc geometry-...
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Different margins for every odd page
I would like to have every second page of my rather large document have different margins, top and bottom. Left and right are fine, I have to split up an A4 script into two landscape A5 pages each, ...
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unwanted gap between paper border and hbox
I am creating the title page for my thesis, and I need this red rectangle right next to the top margin, but the following code generates a (very) small gap between the top of the box and the paper ...
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Why do prosodic marks in babel-latin package cause some words to go past textwidth?
I am trying to copy a book in written in Latin using babel-latin package in Classic Latin variant. This package provides shorthands for prosodic marks if one loads the language with the ...
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How do I change spacing between marginnote and body in twosided document?
By default in a twosided document the marginnotes appear in the outer margins of every page. The spacing between the body and the margin note varies from even to odd pages. What is the reasons for ...
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How to reset document geometry on floating full page image
For my thesis I want some images to use a full-page without creating a page break at the insert AND changing the page document geometry of only the image page.
I have found that \begin{figure}[p] ...
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How to make tcolorbox with minted Python take up the entire document by shrinking whitespace?
I want to make a tcolorbox with minted Python code similar to this answer, including the size/aspect-ratio of the box, but with an additional requirement. I would like the rendered tcolorbox to take ...
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Recovering default margin behaviour using `geometry`
I am wondering, for a document from class article with the following setup:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside]{article}
What values should one input into fields top, right, bottom and left (in ...
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Heron's Problem draw
I'm trying to draw the following picture about Heron's Problem
I don't know how to draw angles and dotted lines. Here is my incomplete code.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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I am not getting a custom page size in memoir class. What is wrong?
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[pageheight= 94mm, pagewidth=195mm]{geometry}
\stockwidth\paperwidth
\stockheight\paperheight
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\newcommand\PlaceText[3]{%
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how does geometry package convert all lengths in landscape mode?
landscape in documentclass doesn't make the paper landscaped. That's why I had to use geometry package.
Portrait mode:
\documentclass{article}
% \usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage{layout}
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\restoregeometry does not immediately restore the geometry on the next page [duplicate]
The minimal working example below demonstrates a wrong placement of the page number
on the first page after the appearance of the environment myenv. How can this be
prevented?
\documentclass{scrartcl}
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First page number misplaced when using subfile and loadgeometry
In a document (memoir class), I need to have a title page with large margins compared to the rest of the document. To do that, I use \savegeometry/\loadgeometry. However, if I include this title using ...
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Remove margin paragraphs from the paper
I have a document that includes no margin paragraphs (\marginpar{..}), and therefore there is no need to give any area on the paper for the marginparsep and marginparwidth lengths.
To achieve that, ...
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Maple and Latex graphics geometry
hello to all the community, I have a query, I am writing a geometry book at school level, I have been using latex and it is going well for me, the only complication I have is regarding the graphics, I ...
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Changing some options in \newgeometry while retaining all others by default
I have a document whose preamble says something in this style:
\RequirePackage[a=3,b=7]{geometry}
Later in the document I want to temporarily change one parameter, i.e., in pseudocode:
\newgeometry{...
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A3 paper landscape in A4 portrait document with same margins
I want to have some A3 landscape pages in my A4 portrait document. These should have the same margins as the A4 pages. I tried the solution of A3 Paper landscape in A4 portrait document with same ...
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A Simple Alternative to Geometry for Changing textwidth within a Document for a Single Page Only
The following code produces three pages of output, wherein the textwidth of each page is 6 inches.
\documentclass{book}
\oddsidemargin -8pt \evensidemargin -15pt \topmargin -25pt
\headheight 25pt \...
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Geometry for standalone class
When using article class, one can specify arbitrary page size using geometry package.
But in standalone class, I can only specify the width using the varwidth option.
I tried using geometry package ...
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How to get the location information of the layout generated by showframe
For example
\documentclass{article}% use option titlepage to get the title on a page of its own.
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand*\ShowFrameColor{\color{blue}}
\title{The ...
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Adjust page margins: Text body always below chapter area [duplicate]
How can the page margins be adjusted such that chapter headline (always at the top of a page) is above the main text body. As a consequence, the chapter space is left blank on pages without chapter ...
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After one landscape page, I do not get a proper portrait (fullpage)
In my document (exam) I want one page in landscape - which works perfectly. Now, the following pages are reduced to a quadratic format (notice that page number is about 8cm too high). What can I do?
I ...
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Printing envelopes for mailing with beamer presentation class
I was able to print several U.S. #10 business letter envelopes 4⅛”×9½” (10.4cm×24.1cm) for mailing with more or less the code I have included below, but the beamer documentclass does not seem to ...
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Highlighting of TikZ figure
I'm looking for a way to highlight a particular area in a TikZ figure I generated. To be more specific, I have a TikZ figure that illustrates there are two octahedral. After I have shown this figure ...
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Continued minipage geometry
I need to motivate certain definition, and to do that I used minipage environment for the motivation part. However when the length of the motivation is more the section doesn't continue to next page ...
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Messed up header / geometry - header line above text instead of below
I've messed something up in fancy header / geometry settings and I'm getting header line above the header text. Where is the mistake and how can I get the default behaviour of displaying the header ...
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How to get a page without white border?
It want a PDF (or PNG) output of a Latex document on one long page, trimmed without the white borders, in minimal runtime.
The preview and standalone packages have this built in in some way and I ...
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Error messages when compiling with make4ht and using biblatex and geometry
Using biblatex and geometry leads to error when compiling with make4ht. The example document is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{geometry}
\begin{document}
Test
\end{document}...
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Adjust header and footer width
Here's the MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside=true,11pt,openright]{book}
% packages:
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\addtolength{\...
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how to remove the horizontal line at the top of the page after a title page
I am running into a problem. I used
https://www.latextemplates.com/template/masters-doctoral-thesis for my thesis. Everything is fine until my supervisor asks me to remove the horizontal line on page ...
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headheight, top, headsep [geometry]
I have a problem with the geometry package. Please refer to the following PDF that my code currently compiles:
https://altosharepdf.com/share/b1132475db2a3d0342a04f6b0fa422b9
My problem is about ...
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Can't get listings to behave at line endings despite use of breaklines parameter
I'm having trouble with getting listings to behave at line endings and respect the page margins. Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[showframe,margin=...
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Box around every page body
I am defining page margins with geometry, adding a footer and header.
I want the body of the text (not the footer or header) to be enclosed in a box (every page).
This is a similar question to What is ...
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Drawing rotated triangles inside triangles
How do I draw rotated triangles inside a triangle as shown above? I already know how to draw one triangle; But I'm not able to draw this specific figure. I found a similar example from https://...
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LaTeX table is outside the specified text area
My thesis requires a specific sized text area of 150mm x 220mm which I have set using \usepackage[a4paper, total={150mm, 220mm}]{geometry} in my preamble and that seems to be working fine for the text,...
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How do I draw an anticlepsydra in LaTeX?
I'd like to approach the sphere's volume by Cavalieri's principle, and so I want to give the students an anticlepsydra's drawing, to guide them to the sphere's formula. Something like this:
The ...
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Multi line header does not play well with geometry headsep parameter
I would like to use the geometry package alongside fancyhdr. To control the distance between header and main text in my article documentclass, this question recommends use of the headsep parameter:
\...
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Auto wrap inline math mode
I have this situation:
How you can see, the two math string exceed the page geometry. The document class that I use is MastersDoctoralThesis and it is available here.
There is a method to auto-wrap ...
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How to make body width smaller than the width of the head and foot?
I'm trying to make the width of the "body" smaller, while keeping the head and the foot untouched. This is what I'm doing:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{paperwidth=...
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Expand the page height to the tcolorbox height
Each tcolorbox must be put on each page for presentation. Some page is overflowed when the tcoloxbox's contents are beyonded height. How can the page height expand in this situation.
This is my MWE, ...
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How can I get b6paper instead of a default letterpaper using the geometry package?
I'm working on a memoir that I need to have a B6 paper size, but everytime I compile with latexmk it generates a PDF preview with a letter sized paper. Here's what I have:
\documentclass[10pt, ...
